The skeleton is the latest in a series of bodies discovered in the city of Dijon that were mysteriously buried in a seated ...

Scientists trying to work out why Gauls chose to bury some of their dead in seated position facing west ...

A skeleton sitting upright, peeking out the top of a circular pit, is the latest in a series of bodies discovered in the city ...

An 8,000-year-old skeleton discovered deep within a flooded cave system on Mexico's Caribbean coast is shedding new light on the prehistoric inhabitants of the Yucatán Peninsula. The remains, found by ...

The growing paleopathological literature shows that scurvy was not a rare problem among people living in the ancient Asia-Pacific tropics. Scurvy is increasingly identified throughout the region, ...

Marine archaeologists have unearthed an 8,000-year-old skeleton within an underwater cave system situated on Mexico’s ...

A study of Inca skeletons reveals how ancient communities cared for those affected by disabilities and chronic illnesses in the Inca period.

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...

A trove of shackled skeletons unearthed in a mass grave near Athens may have once belonged to the followers of a tyrant who sought to overthrow the leader of ancient Greece. "These might be the ...