A new study published by archaeologists at Bournemouth University has revealed that the bodies recovered from a ‘war-cemetery’ previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle I ...

In northwestern Arabia's Tabuk province, blowing in the sands of a long-forgotten oasis, archaeologists have found the world's oldest known evidence for the ritual application of Peganum harmala, othe ...

On May 26, 1940, the British government launched Operation Dynamo, dubbed after the dynamo room at Dover Castle where the operation was planned. Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay was given an impossible ...

Deep in the green border of Kenya and Tanzania is a volcanic crater lake that quietly keeps an ancient geophysical journal.

In the spring of 1521, the Rhineland town as old as Rome, ‘Worms’, witnessed an event that was destined to alter the history of Christendom forever.

In the dark rock shelter of Riparo Tagliente in Italy's Lessini Mountains, the fragmentary skeleton of a young man, interred more than 17,000 years ago, provides a chilling window (and reminder) into ...

In the desolate land of northwest China's Xinjiang province, archaeologists have unearthed something that reveals early ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...