Archaeologists in southern France have excavated an ancient Roman cemetery containing 1,430 graves and traces of a funerary festival, during which families feasted by the graves of relatives.

Researchers think the artifacts were made during the little-known Kangju state.

The statue was created by the Indus Valley Civilization, a Bronze Age culture that once inhabited what is now Pakistan.

The structure is thought to be made by the people behind the Neolithic Funnel-Beaker culture.

Researchers reconstructed the relationships among nearly 300 Avars, people from a 1,500-year-old mysterious warrior culture in the Carpathian Basin.

These masks, known for their distortion and asymmetry, are one of the oldest kinds of art in southwest Alaska.

This anthropomorphic clay tablet was likely used in an ancient ritual by the Jōmon culture in Japan.

Prehistoric humans adorned themselves with different types of beads depending on their culture and location in Europe.

Officials were alerted to the alleged crime and successfully recovered the artifacts.

Three newfound brick tombs date to the Golden Khanate, a non-Chinese people who ruled in northern China centuries ago.

This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.

The sacrifices could be an early form of a Scythian burial tradition that lasted for hundreds of years.

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated."

Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers.

Archaeologists analyzed a number of artifacts from a pilgrimage camp in Israel that they think "sorcerers" used for magical purposes.

The landscape features in the dreamtime stories of Australia's Indigenous people.

Social media, city life and even our sweet tooth can affect stress levels, health and even how many children we have.

Live Science spoke with leading psychiatrist Dr. Dinesh Bhugra ahead of his appearance at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London.

Cannibalism has been documented across Western Europe, from prehistory into the 1800s.

The people who created the Pitted Ware Culture may have used seal hides to build boats.

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb that is richly decorated with wall paintings.

Research suggests cannibalism was a funerary rite for the Magdalenian people in northwest Europe, but others preferred to bury their dead.

Several dozen burials from the Wari culture, which prospered in the region before the Inca took over, were unearthed in Peru.