The ancient Abu Dhabi Pearl is among the pieces on display at the Zayed National Museum, which opened this week.

It’s said that when you hold a conch shell to your ear, you can hear the roar of the ocean. Now, researchers have proposed ...

Archaeologists in southwest Scotland uncovered an extraordinary Neolithic site featuring jet-bead jewelry, ancient tools, and the remains of one of Britain’s oldest houses. These finds reveal a ...

A 5,500-year-old wildcat discovered in County Clare reveals surprising insights into Ireland’s prehistoric wildlife and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror at Canhasan in central Turkey, one of the oldest settlements ...

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight ...

Thousands of years ago, people in what's now Vietnam often performed tooth ablation, as shown in this skull from the Hoa Diem site. Image credit: Hirofumi Matsumura (Sapporo Medical University, ...

The Ancient Greek philosopher Plato wrote his Atlantis story in two documents called the Timaeus and Critias. These writings date from about 360 BC and are the only known works that describe the ...

Molecular food remains sampled from Neolithic pottery determines dairy farming “took hold” in what is modern-day Britain and Ireland. A new study of pottery fragments by a team of scientists led by ...

Archaeologists in southeast Austria discovered what could be one of the most impressive sites of its era in ancient Europe. The team found three circular ditch systems that date to around 6,500 years ...