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An archaeological site in the area dates back about 4,200 years.

The metal suits worn by knights during the Middle Ages were originally designed to protect against weapons such as swords. But could medieval armor also stop bullets?

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and human traits.

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

The skeleton of a Stone Age child discovered in Thailand is rewriting what experts know about the prehistory of the area.

Archaeologists have found a hoard of 2,600-year-old jewelry at Karnak Temple in Egypt.

The discovery of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools upends what we know about tool manufacturing in East Africa.

A more than 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden isn't a Viking vessel after all, scientists have found.

These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the rest of Central American culture than previously thought.

The silver coins were minted over a period of more than 200 years, suggesting that Roman currency at this time was relatively stable.