Near a quiet bend of the Danube River in Lower Austria, obscured by floodplains, there is a relic of a long-forgotten frontier.

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species repre ...

Outperforming even the most voracious and ruthless human invaders, the Black Death decimated English towns of all sizes in ...

Many different causes likely contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, in the various stages of that phenomenon.

A team of prehistoric archaeologists from Tel Aviv University has proposed a new hypothesis to explain a long-standing mystery: Why did ancient humans bring very young children deep into underground c ...

A major archaeological discovery near Alexandria, Egypt, is reshaping historians' understanding of the ancient civilization's northern frontier, specifically during the New Kingdom period.

The Denisovans are the most enigmatic and mysterious of human ancestors, and also one of the most fascinating.

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A team of Polish archaeologists has been credited with one of the most extraordinary finds in recent memory in Peru.

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, ...

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, ...

A vivid digital reconstruction has brought to life the face of a Mycenaean woman who lived over 3,500 years ago, offering an ...