The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research ...

Two groundbreaking studies challenge the traditional timeline of cat domestication, highlighting the pivotal influence of ...

Archaeologists have long debated who was buried in these megalithic monuments and whether the tombs served other purposes, such as rituals, ceremonies, or displays. The prevailing view was that these ...

New genetic research challenges the traditional view of Stone Age tombs in Ireland, revealing they were community burial ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

At the Liangzhu Museum, Gehane Nabil, director of the Grand Egyptian Museum Learning Center, adjusted her AR glasses ...

Göbekli Tepe, a 7,000-year-older site than the Egyptian pyramids, is the world’s oldest monumental structure, offering a new ...

The oldest building in the world is Gobekli Tepe. It is an archaeological site of a temple which is located in the south-eastern part of Turkey. Gobekli Tepe was built around 9000 BC and it is an ...

Nearly every year since 2010, I have written a story about how all the horses in the Kentucky Derby get their names, and you can probably guess which one will ...

It was assumed for a long time that Stone Age tombs in Ireland were built for royalty. However, a new DNA analysis of 55 ...

Nestled in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, Skara Brae is a prehistoric village that has intrigued archaeologists and ...

Gunung Padang, first re-discovered by Dutch explorers in 1890, is said to be the world's oldest pyramid. Studies show that ...