The Vikings have a reputation as a hardy and healthy people. But a new study suggests this conception may be a myth, at least with respect to the Viking-Age inhabitants of one Scandinavian country.

The collection of severed heads was a unique funerary practice within the ancient Iberian world, notably in the Iron Age between 2,000 and 3,000 years ago.

Archaeology isn’t just about dusty ruins and ancient pottery—it’s full of bizarre discoveries that challenge what we think we know about the past.

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan, Zheng He, ...

Nearly a year-and-a-half ago human remains were recovered from a peat bog near the village of Bellaghy in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

According to research by the British neurophysiologist Peter Fenwick, near-death experiences (NDEs) occur in approximately “10% of people who come close to death, or who survive actual clinical death.

Europeans did not always look the same as they do today. Among the things that have changed are skin tone, which has gotten lighter over time.

Nobody seems to have noticed the significance of the locations in St Paul’s missionary journey other than to note that there were Jewish communities in those locations.

A remarkable archaeological discovery near Jerusalem is reshaping our understanding of ascetic religious practices and traditions in the Byzantine era.

Archaeologists have uncovered what is now considered the oldest known section of the Great Wall of China—one of the most iconic structures on earth—dating back nearly 300 years earlier than previously ...

Egyptian authorities have revealed a significant archaeological breakthrough, which is the discovery of the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt for a short time around 1,480 BC.

The River Thames in England has gained a reputation as a watery burial ground, and with good reason. Over the past 200 years skeletal remains have been dredged up from its bottom ...