Researchers discovered a royal tomb that is over 3,600 years old in Abydos, Egypt. The entryway of the tomb was decorated with inscriptions dedicated to Isis and Nephthys, goddesses of the afterlife.

This year, three embalmed bodies buried with some cheese on them were discovered at an ancient burial site in Xinjiang in northwestern China. 杨益民/Yimin Yang et. al. via Journal of Archaeological ...

Grisly details about ancient child sacrifices, a map of a lost city in the Amazon and the answer to a Stonehenge mystery are some of this year’s insights into human history. Discovering a human brain ...

So much of the physical evidence of humanity’s existence has been erased, eroded, buried, dynamited and in other ways obliterated. Enter the archaeologists. This series examines innovations, small and ...

This department provides continuous geographic coverage of ancient societies from the Plains of North America through the Southwest and Mesoamerica to the Intermediate Area. The native societies range ...