Bones were exhumed and passed around to members of the community, who used the remains of their ancestors in a surprising number of ways.
A newly confirmed mass grave in the ancient city of Jerash, Jordan, offers chilling insight into one of history’s first recorded pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within a matter of ...
New research has revealed that ancient people in southern Arabia dined on an apex predator — sharks. The study, recently published in the journal Antiquity, centers on a tomb in Wadi Nafūn, an ...
Photo provided to China Daily] High on a cliff in Lushan county of Pingdingshan city, Central China's Henan province, a small ...
LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...
Learn how archaeologists are using ancient charcoal deposits to understand what life was like for ancient humans 800,000 ...