Archaeologists from the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History have recently conducted an excavation at Holmetjønn, ...

A team of archaeologists from Peru, the United States, and Canada recently completed an analysis of 1,000-year-old textile ...

By Andrew Tomkins/The ConversationThe rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System ...

Almost a decade into a project examining the late Republican city of Fregellae, 100 kilometers (62.13 miles) from Rome, ...

Just imagine – the famed bronze-winged lion above one of the columns in Piazzetta San Marco, often seen as a universal symbol ...

Most often, we know the Ancient Slavs as peaceful tribes of the steppes and woodlands, who excelled at animal husbandry and agriculture. But did you know that they were also skilled seafarers?

Once again, Ancient Origins has fallen victim to Facebook's censorship system, this time for publishing a factual account of ...

The ancient Olmec civilization of Mesoamerica is known for their huge stone heads and related sculptures depicting human and ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the ...

Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ...

Archaeologists in Chełm, Poland, have uncovered two children's skeletal remains, one of which exhibits signs of an ...

Recent archaeological excavations produced evidence showing that the first humans to live in the Great Lakes region of North ...