Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). If you’re after must-see sights, the monuments of ancient civilisations are right at the top. And it’s not just because their temples, ...

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world. Ongoing investigations by Turkish, British and other archaeologists in ...

Archaeological sites older than the Roman Empire and the pyramids can be found in many US states. These sites shed light on the first humans who arrived in North America. Some are closed to the public ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed and entombed a thriving Roman city, researchers are turning to the novel technique of digital archaeology to reveal the “lost Pompeii ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

If you’re after must-see sights, the monuments of ancient civilisations are right at the top. And it’s not just because their temples, tombs, cities and citadels are superlative feats of archaeology — ...