Anthropology

A newly published study has uncovered fresh evidence that the Nazi SS likely misidentified the remains of a medieval woman as those of King Henry I in an attempt to bolster its ideological campaign during the 1930s.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a Hellenistic military camp in southeastern Uzbekistan, offering new insight into the lasting impact of Alexander the Great's conquests in Central Asia more than 2,200 years ago.

The remains of a young soldier who died fighting in the American Revolutionary War more than 245 years ago have been identified through DNA analysis, marking a major breakthrough in the use of genetic genealogy in military archaeology.

Cannibalism may have become one of humanity's strongest taboos because it was ultimately too dangerous for the survival of societies that practised it, according to a new study by Polish and Czech researchers.

Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable Iron Age burial in central Spain that suggests two men executed more than 2,200 years ago were deliberately denied traditional funerary rites and buried with deer antlers in what researchers believe was a ritual intended to protect the community from the dead.

Researchers have identified four more crew members from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition using DNA analysis, shedding new light on one of history's greatest exploration mysteries and resolving a debate that has lasted more than 160 years.

Central Europe played a far more significant role in Neanderthal history than previously understood, serving as a major corridor for migration, population exchange and social interaction, according to a new international study of fossil remains discovered in southern Poland.

Archaeologists have narrowed down the date of the ritual sacrifice of the famed Inca “Girl of Llullaillaco”, one of the world’s best-preserved mummies, to around AD 1499, providing fresh insights into the religious and political strategies of the expanding Inca Empire.

Archaeologists investigating a medieval cemetery near Dąbrówno in northern Poland have uncovered an unusual burial featuring an iron knife placed beneath the deceased's neck and a nail positioned on the chest.

Archaeologists excavating at the ancient site of Tel Kom Aziza in Egypt have revealed a Greco-Roman cemetery atop much older settlements dating to the earliest days of ancient Egyptian civilisation.

Archaeologists in Opole have uncovered the joint grave of two medieval women, marking the first genetically confirmed same-sex burial from medieval Poland.

Excavations at the ancient city of Ihnasya in Beni Suef have produced a series of discoveries spanning more than a millennium of Egyptian history, including an inscription of King Senusret III, a rare marble sculpture of Aphrodite and previously unknown sections of a Roman basilica.

A study of eight 14th-century tombs at the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes in Barcelona, Spain, has uncovered evidence that challenges several long-accepted identifications.

For more than a decade, Polish scientists have been unravelling a genetic mystery hidden beneath churches, crypts and long-forgotten royal burial sites across Central Europe. Their goal has been to trace the biological origins of the Piast dynasty, the ruling family that established the Polish state more than a millennium ago.

A new international study is challenging long-held ideas about what happened in Central Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.