ARCHAEOLOGY

Legend stoked by massive building stones that make up some of the buildings.

Cats dominated the ancient world as much as they now dominate the internet.

The victims were not local and had to adapt to the local diet.

The marsh could hide further remains of the knight and his possessions.

The pliosaur was a more gentle relative of its large and fearsome cousins.

The burials are threatened to be destroyed by the sea.

The imposing Shigir Idol is 5.3 metres tall.

Multispectral imaging can help reveal long-lost ancient texts.

Archaeologists working at the site of Sphinx have proposed a new interpretations for the holes.

The mask was found in a grave with 14 children, women and men.

The monument is thought to have been burned as part of a spectacular fire ritual.

32 severed male heads were found amongst the remains of an ancient Aztec temple.

The hoard was buried to prevent it being stolen in 500 BCE, but the owner never returned.

The earliest humans looked just like us, but their brains were quite different.

The earliest ever Homo sapiens has been discovered in Morocco - here's what it tells us about our origins.

The dinosaur's fossil measures at 8 metres and is the third in the world to be discovered from a marine stratum.

The tombs are thought to date back to the Late Period of Egypt.

The city was well ahead of its time - it was the largest settlement in the region before the Middle Ages.

The ritual burial was found at a site that hadn't been inhabited for 150 years.

The structure, known as El Volcán, was probably erected deliberately to look like a volcano.

The island of Delos is known in Greek mythology as a sacred place - the birth place of Apollo and Artemis.

The groundwater springs would have been a lifeline for our pre-human ancestors.

The study shed light on the ancestry of ancient Egyptians who lived at the crossroads between continents.

Objects inside the tomb appear to show the cultural interactions between different worlds in the 5th century BCE.

The greenstones are thought to have been used in ceremonies to establish a ruling class.

Archaeologists have not been able to date the mysterious engravings yet.

As wealthy classes emerged in Europe, they distinguished themselves with expensive imported clothing.

The new species has been dubbed Luskhan itilensis, meaning the Master Spirit.

A controversial study said humans originated in Europe and not Africa. Here's why we shouldn't rewrite textbooks yet.