Grotesque-style paintings featuring fantastical beasts and foliage, The Ashes, Cumbria, England. INGLEWOOD FOREST, ...

Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles ...

The oldest known evidence of tumpline use was identified at a Bronze Age Nubian cemetery in modern-day Sudan, according to a ...

According to Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, 6,500-year-old objects found deep within a cave in West Texas may comprise the ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North […] ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

Ruins of the capital city of Dilmun, on the island of Bahrain, are visible alongside a fort dating to the sixteenth century a.d. Dilmun founded its capital around 2000 b.c., when it increasingly ...

Quartzite tablet (left) with Hatshepsut cartouche; temple blocks (center and right) with bas-reliefs Extensive remnants of one of the temples commissioned by the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (reigned ca.

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long linen cloth crafted in the eleventh century, depicts scenes from William the Conqueror’s invasion of England and his defeat of Harold Godwinson, England’s ...

Exploring the surprisingly rich archaeological record of berries, melons…and more ...