Dr Caroline West writes about the earliest sex toys invented, and what they can tell us about how history remembers women.

The emerging importance of the find underscores a key truth about archaeology: artifacts often hold secrets that only later ...

Archaeologists at Rakhigarhi, the largest known Harappan site, have discovered a stadium with precise engineering, indicating ...

Mayer’s weak attempt to address opera’s recent struggles with its history of fetishization of “exotic” cultures adds nothing ...

The intricately crafted coffin dates back more than 1,500 years. Researchers say it weighs around 1,650 pounds, "comparable ...

The surprising artifact could be evidence of fertility rituals—or just one of history’s strangest good luck charms.

The research has revealed that hominins who once lived in what is now Israel likely consumed a wide range of plant-based ...

After completing fieldwork at the Wuwangdun No.1 tomb site in Huai'nan, East China's Anhui Province, archaeologists have ...

Archaeologists Dr. Jess Thompson and her colleagues have published a study dealing with the possible identification of human ...

The Related Group has offered to donate hundreds of thousands of ancient artifacts and other relics unearthed at the site of ...

Swiss-French archaeologists have uncovered the 4,100-year-old tomb in Egypt that belonged to a royal physician with a very ...

The archaeologists also found the remains of Queen Hatsheput's Valley Temple, rock-cut tombs which date back to 1983BC - ...