In the desolate land of northwest China's Xinjiang province, archaeologists have unearthed something that reveals early settlement and cultural habits at the intersection of Central Asia.

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Beneath the ancient Maya city of Dos Pilas in northern Guatemala, archaeologists recently made a grim discovery that reveals ...

David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King's College London, was browsing Harvard Law School Library's online collections in December 2023 when he stumbled on something odd: a manuscript ...

A Yiddish music hall song from around 1900 jokes that East Enders live on “poteytes un gefrayte fish” – a Yiddish version of the cockney staple fish and chips. The song lists the many novelties that ...

In a mountainous area of eastern Turkey, a team of American researchers believes they may have uncovered the remnants of one of history's most legendary vessels—Noah’s Ark.

An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the Singapore Center for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and Asia ...

Long before modern humans arrived in Europe, early members of the human family tree were engineering wooden spears to hunt ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

In the still soil under a church in Lund, southern Sweden, archaeologists have discovered the skeletal remains of a man whose fractured bones tell us a lot about medieval life, suffering, and human ki ...

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

One typical day in the year 79 CE, life as usual for the residents of Pompeii came to an abrupt end. Suddenly, Mount Vesuvius erupted in a catastrophic volcanic explosion, spewing a massive mushroom ...