A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a ...

In 1886, mining engineer John T. Reid was told the Paiute legend of a giant people defeated by the natives near Lovelock, Nevada. The last of the giants met their fiery end deep within the bowels of a ...

Scientists have discovered a new human species that went extinct 200,000 years ago which had large heads and immense teeth.

The meaning of the etching, which appears on a 2,600-year-old stone monument in modern day Turkey, has long escaped experts.

Archaeologists uncovered the oldest gun in the US, shedding light on early Spanish expeditions and the battle that reshaped ...

Researchers say the ship, discovered in 2013 in waters off a Kenyan coastal town, is a Portuguese vessel and may have been Da ...

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s ...

Archaeology studies the human past through the excavation of things people made and used thousands of years ago -- from architecture to objects like pottery bowls and animal bones from meals. Although ...