When a 9,000 year-old grave of a shaman was discovered in Nazi Germany, the discovery was quickly politicized to support Nazi propaganda. But new analysis shows that initial narrative was all wrong.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polish archaeologists who found the grave of a German soldier discovered even more historic artifacts amid the exhumation of the ...

An elaborate burial from the Mesolithic Period is intriguing archaeologists, not because of decoration of the tomb but its occupant: an infant girl who lived just 40 to 50 days. The 10,000-year-old ...

DENVER, COLORADO—According to a Gizmodo report, paleoanthropologist Jamie Hodgkins of the University of Colorado, Denver, and her colleagues have analyzed the remains of an infant discovered in a cave ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery is made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ...