Two iron ankle shackles, buried for about 2,200 years in the Egyptian desert, have revealed new evidence of forced labor.

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

New research led by the British Museum has found evidence of the world’s oldest human fire-making activity in Barnham, ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to be from the 9th or 10th century BC. The ritualistic-looking item was ...

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"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton.

New analyses of the Hjortspring boat, a well-preserved prehistoric vessel, date its construction to 381-161 BCE. Material ...