Roughly 5,000 years ago, a man’s body was placed inside a kiln at the Neolithic site of Gerstewitz in Central Europe. He was ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by archaeologists who uncovered a nearly 1,000-year-old Toltec ceremonial altar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An archaeologist stands next to pre-columbian artifacts in a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza (AP) Twin boys were often ...

Romans kept dogs as pets, exemplified in this mosaic from the second or third century A.D. Some of the bones from the ritual deposit in Surrey may have belonged to domestic dogs, but it's unclear if ...

The Incas were known to engage in a sacrificial ritual involving children to appease their gods. Archaeologists have found and analyzed the remains of these human sacrifices, although not all of them ...