Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

Charred hazelnut shells discovered at an archaeological site in Cornwall have pushed back the date for the arrival of the Neolithic period in the region by at least a century. New radiocarbon dating ...

Excavations at a central Italian city upended the belief that it served as a “backwater town” during the Roman era, finding instead it was a thriving centre till the 3rd century. The decade-long ...

New archaeological studies have provided surprising revelations about the age of sites connected to the legendary King Arthur of Britain. Recent findings indicate that these sites may be 4,000 years ...

Across archaeology and earth science, new discoveries are stacking up and they do not fit the clean textbook timeline of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...