Prague’s newest visitor is 3.2 million years old. Lucy, the famed Australopithecus afarensis fossil, has arrived in the Czech capital alongside Selam, a young child of the same species, for a groundbreaking exhibition on human evolution.

Deep within El Mirador Cave in northern Spain, researchers have uncovered bone-chilling evidence of human cannibalism dating back around 5,700 years.

Using near-infrared imaging, researchers uncovered extraordinary hand-poked designs of tigers, griffins and tiny roosters on the body of a 2300-year-old Siberian mummy.

Archaeologists think they have uncovered one of the oldest burial sites globally within a cave in Israel, where the remarkably preserved remains of early humans, dating back approximately 100,000 years, were meticulously arranged in pits.

It's the first of its kind for Esk'etemc First Nation. An archaeological field school for students of all ages. It's a chance to learn more about family history and to gain the tools and hands-on experience necessary to work in the...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient cemetery near Egypt's famous pyramids in the Giza plateau near Cairo, said the country's ministry of antiquities. Wooden tombs painted in various colours and limestone statues were among the...

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of the first man to circumnavigate Australia, Captain Matthew Flinders, during a dig where a new London train station is due to be built. Flinders, a British explorer, is known for being the...

The sunken ruins of ancient cities, the monuments of lost civilisations, may reappear before our eyes thanks to new technologies of augmented reality. Euronews' Denis Loctier went to Italy for Futuris to investigate a remarkable new tool...

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,800-year-old mural which dates back to the oldest civilisation in the Americas, the lost Caral people. The discovery was made at the 5,000-year-old Vichama archaeological site in northern Peru. The...

Archaelogists at the Pompei site in Italy have made a dramatic new discovery. The skeleton of a man who was fleeing the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 AD and was crushed by a rock thrown into the air by the explosion. "The way he fell we...

A small brown pebble found on a Sussex beach could be the first fossilised dinosaur brain tissue ever discovered according to UK scientists. Thought to have come from a large herbivore, closely related to the Iguanodon, the fossil could...

To this day, Pompeii’s famous ruins are a source of wonder and mystery to countless visitors. However, it can be difficult to visualise how the ancient buildings appeared before the devastating volcanic eruption in 79 AD. Therefore...

A team of scientists at the University of Kentucky working with biblical scholars in Jerusalem have succeeded in revealing the contents of what looks like a lump of charcoal. It is, in fact, a copy of the book of Leviticus – the earliest...

Archaelogical findings including fossilised bones and artefacts covering almost two million years of human evolution are on show at the Georgian National Museum as part of its exhibition ‘Stone Age Georgia’. Besides the fossils, visitors...

The face of Peru’s Lord of Sipan has finally been unmasked some 1,900 years after his death, all thanks to technology, which has built a 3D reconstruction of the ancient warrior’s face. His tomb was discovered untouched in 1987 and has...

Visitors will soon be able to discover a brand new reproduction of the famous prehistoric Lascaux cave, complete with the feel, smell and humidity of the Paleolithic era. Work on a life-size replica is nearly complete and scheduled to...

A team in Israel has unearthed an ancient cemetery, which it says will unravel the mystery of the Philistines. DNA, radiocarbon and biological distance tests are being performed on bone samples found at the cemetery, dating from the 11th...

For over a century since it was found in an ancient shipwreck, scientists have been scratching their heads over the exact function of the Antikythera mechanism, named after the Greek island off which it was found. From a few words...

Situated 30km off Rethymnon, Crete, the necropolis of Orthi Petra is part of the wider archaeological site of ancient Eleftherna, a town with continuous habitation from 3000BC to the Byzantine years. Situated on the western slope of the...

Archaeologists in Israel have recovered bronze statues and thousands of coins from a merchant ship that sank off the Mediterranean coast some 1,600 years ago during the late Roman period. The vessel was probably hit by a storm as it...

Pompeii’s Antiquarium Museum has reopened after 36 years. Its new exhibition includes a vivid audio-visual recreation of the moment the ancient city was destroyed in 79 AD, when Mount Vesuvius erupted burying Pompeii and its inhabitants...

Israeli researchers now think literacy may have been widespread in ancient times much earlier than previously thought. They have analysed inscriptions found on ancient fragments of pottery found in the Negev desert. The 2,600 year-old...

The astonishingly well preserved remains of two Bronze Age houses and their contents have been discovered at a quarry site in Peterborough. The circular wooden houses stood on stilts in a waterlogged fenland site beside the ancient...

An underwater robot called U-CAT, inspired by a turtle and developed by a team of engineers at Estonia’s University of Technology in Tallinn, is raising hopes for a new approach to maritime archaeology. It uses fins instead of...