A thick band of clay and sand, believed to be the remains of a massive flood, has been discovered beneath ancient ruins in Iraq, reopening a familiar question in archaeology: could earlier human ...

The discovery of colossal Olmec stone heads revealed the existence of a long forgotten civilization that shaped early Mesoamerica. From these early societies emerged the first Maya cities, massive ...

While archaeologists were recently examining Neanderthal remains in the Spanish Pyrenees, a very different discovery has now stolen the spotlight: a mysterious medieval community that lived for ...