The mosaic, dated to the last quarter of 4th century BC (325-300 BC), adorns the floor of an antechamber leading to the tomb at the Kasta Hill burial complex in the ancient city of Amphipolis. It covers an area of 4.5 by 3 meters and shows two male figures and a chariot pulled by two white horses.

SAN DIEGO — Britons might not be Anglo-Saxons, a genetic analysis of five ancient skeletons hints. When archaeological digs revealed ancient graves on the grounds of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England, researchers there took it as a sign that they should analyze the ancient

A young girl, rejected by an ancient community, was said to have been buried face down to prevent her spirit from rising from the grave at just 13 years of age. That's the verdict of archaeologists who discovered the child's skeleton near a church in northern Italy. They believe she was considered

The world's oldest cave art may not lie in Europe but rather halfway around the globe in Indonesia, according to a new study of the long-known art. But some archaeologists question the redating of the ancient images. Thousands of years ago, people on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia

Sometime about 400,000 years ago, humans learned to fully control fire. This breakthrough radically changed our diets, because we could now cook food, but did it transform our culture as well? A study of evening campfire conversations by the Ju/’hoan people of Namibia and Botswana (pictured above)