Long before modern humans arrived in Europe, early members of the human family tree were engineering wooden spears to hunt prey along the shores of an ancient lake in central Germany.

The most famous of all the predatory dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, likely evolved in a different part of the world than its ...

A groundbreaking new study has conclusively shown that southwest Britain was a major supplier of tin to Bronze Age ...

For centuries, scholars have been fascinated by the way the Parthenon, the crown jewel of Athens’ Acropolis, was illuminated, ...

During the excavations the archaeologists found a trench, 6.6 feet (two meters) deep, that surrounded the fortress (it would have likely been filled with water). Dug during the Ptolemaic era, the moat ...

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Archaeologists in Hungary uncovered a treasure trove of valuable metal artifacts during excavations at a site known as Somló ...

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, ...