The burial site also held three horse skeletons, a young bull, and a possible human sacrifice, hinting at some bizarre funerary rituals.

A startling date reveals the strange, complicated lives of dogs in an empire before the Incas.

Clay tablets reveal why schoolwork doubled as worship in ancient Babylonia.

An excavation at an iconic Neandertal burial site uncovers evidence for one individual's potential fatal wound as well as an injury endured for years.

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other primates lack.