The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often self-inflicted.

As physical restraints, chains were a more extreme way to practice asceticism ... is a staff writer at Live Science with a focus on archaeology and paleoanthropology news. Her articles have ...

The Silk Road's history took a sudden turn after archaeologists discovered a series of hidden cities beneath Uzbekistan's ...

Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third ...

The discovery reveals ancient settlements and communication networks, providing insight into life in extreme environments.

Over the weekend, three Italian researchers looking in to the Giza necropolis - Professor Corrado Malanga and Filippo Biondi ...

The pair pinpointed a nearly 600-year-old treasure of 30 gold and silver coins that were minted in the fifteenth century.

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...

The discovery of Richard III's skeleton beneath a council car park in Leicester in 2012 stunned both the academic and wider ...

Archaeologists have discovered iron objects at six sites in Tamil Nadu, dating back to 2,953–3,345 BCE, or between 5,000 to 5,400 years old. This suggests that the process of extracting, smelting, ...