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 ...

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

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 ...

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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, ...

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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, ...

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