People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through ...

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Researchers from the Prehistoric Studies and Research Seminar and the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Barcelona ...

Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

A newly uncovered fossil site beneath theJava Sea is shifting scientific perspectives on early human survival and prehistoric ...

Archaeologists uncover 16 Indigenous canoes, one older than the Pyramids, revealing a vast prehistoric travel network.

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An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

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Archaeologists suspect the ancient society carried out two types of human sacrifices – one that involved mass burials of men ...