Viking runestone, Sweden, 8th c. A.D.

Live Science reports that prehistoric burials have been discovered in Malaysia’s Nenggiri Valley. Zuliskandar Ramli of the ...

Clockwise from left: shod horse hoof, tinderbox contents, Viking-period arrowhead Humans and animals have traversed the icy landscape of Norway’s Jotunheimen Mountains for thousands of years.

An aerial photograph of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus shows excavations of two of the city’s industrial quarters.(Courtesy Peter M. Fischer) More than 40 years ago, a Turkish sponge diver named ...

People who lived throughout Europe during the Ice Age may have practiced ritual cannibalism. Between 23,500 and 13,500 years ago, these hunters left traces of their culture, known as Magdalenian ...

Mus musculus musculus molar (above left) and Eastern European house mouse (above right) Orton says that it remains unclear exactly how the eastern house mouse came to inhabit Vinča-Belo Brdo at a ...

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...

When you were a child, you probably had toys such as plastic or porcelain dolls and plush, furry animals that may have included mythical beings such as unicorns. You may have created skits in ...

ULYTAU, KAZAKHSTAN—Ten medieval burial mounds, or kurgans, have been discovered in central Kazakhstan, according to a Live Science report. Archaeologist Zhanbolat Utubaev of the Margulan ...

Excavations along the I-95 corridor in Philadelphia revealed the square foundations of annealing ovens used in the Dyottville Glass Works during the early nineteenth century.(Courtesy AECOM ...