The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

a Neanderthal who sustained many debilitating injuries but was cared for by his family), medical treatment in prehistoric ...

30, 2025 — Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity.

In 1919, UChicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted formed the Oriental Institute (OI)—a world-renowned museum and interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the study of early civilizations in ...

Archaeologists have found signs of an ancient transport system in White Sands National Park, New Mexico, dating back 22,000 ...

Archaeologists in China have uncovered 53 ancient sites linked to the Hongshan culture, a prehistoric civilization dating ...

New AI technology is transforming archaeology, detecting 5,000-year-old sites in Dubai and medieval ruins in Mongolia without ...

If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond grasslands. A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ...