ARCHAEOLOGY

For the first time, researchers have directly dated rock art in Lesotho, Botswana and South Africa.

The woman is thought to be a direct descendant of the founding population of South-East Asia.

Children faced a wide array of threats to their lives in the city of Carthage.

The location and orientation of the Uffington White Horse has been linked to the arc of the midwinter sun.

The Emperor has gone down in history as a tyrant but archaeologists are looking for his luxurious ship.

Violence was less widespread in Mesopotamia than in the rest of the Near East 5,200 years ago.

Beads and a pendant were made from the bones of the bear cuscus and teeth of the pig-deer.

This is the second vessel belonging to the Pharaoh discovered at the site.

Twenty paintings acquired by the Nazis during the war were identified in Klessheim Palace.

A new quantitative analysis has revealed that temperatures, not droughts, increased warfare among the Maya.

The thesis is described as being as wacky as claims that aliens built the pyramids.

Comparisons of fossil skulls with modern birds and crocodilians showed that the tyrannosaur probably had a very sensitive face.

The toy is 1,000 years old and suggests its owners were not so poor.

The finding suggests that Neanderthals had aesthetic awareness involving a sense of consistency and regularity.

Until now, the city of Ucetia was only known by name and by a few isolated mosaic fragments.

The bubonic plague reached Genoa in the summer of 1347.

The discovery was made by the Spanish Archaeological Mission at Qubbet el-Hawa.

The palace is the oldest ever excavated in Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca.

The tracks had been known for decades but no one had ever investigated them in depth.

Drone mapping of dinosaurs' tracks is expected to revolutionise the way researchers investigate dinosaurs.

The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project had made yet another exciting discovery.

The rock carvings are about 2,000 years older than the ancient cemetery where they were found.

Humans may have eaten each other in southern Spain, during the Mesolithic era.

Another look at the evolutionary history of dinosaurs resolves a long-standing puzzle about birds' earliest ancestors.

Roman settlers nay have borrowed subsistence strategies from nomadic groups.

The foundations underneath the tomb are crumbling and sit on top of centuries of rubble.

The exceptionally preserved creature was named in honour of David Attenborough.

The renovation work at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was completed recently.

The battle of Salamis is the first large naval battle recorded in history.