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Ten years ago tomorrow, the Taliban began to systematically destroy the great Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan-two giant statues that watched over the Bamiyan Valley for 1500 years. Now, extensive studies of the rubble have revealed new details about the creation and appearance of these statues, including their original colors.

As the Gadaffi regime continues to massacre citizens, its repression also puts a rich cultural heritage at risk.

Neanderthals living in what is now Italy may have used feathers as fashion accessories, according to a study on 44,000-year-old bird bones. While investigating Neanderthal remains in the Fumane Cave near Verona in northern Italy, paleoanthropologist Marco Peresani from the University of Ferrara and colleagues discovered 660 bird bones in layers that were dated to around 44,000 years ago.

(...) priceless historical treasures can never be completely safeguarded, in Europe, the United States, or anywhere else. Natural disasters and warfare are always a threat. But as culturally insensitive (and politically incorrect) as it may seem, recent events suggest that the best place for many of history's priceless antiquities may indeed be far away from the lands that spawned them.

Remains of the Husky-like dog, buried 7,000 years ago in Siberia, suggest people saw it as a thinking, social being.

Lost history is being recovered by reconstructing documents that survived in fragments wrapped in mummy casings

The 11,500-year-old bones and teeth are the first remnants of ancient man found in Alaska since 1996, when University of South Dakota researcher Tim Heaton found the bones of a man dated to about 10,500 years ago in a limestone cave on Prince of Wales Island. The skeletal remains of "Kennewick Man," found in southern Washington, have been dated to about 9,300 years ago.

Germany authorities on Friday hit back at Turkish Culture Minister Ertuğrul Günay after he demanded the return of an ancient sphinx uncovered from a German archeological dig nearly a century ago. In an interview with Thursday's Tagesspiegel, Günay gave Germany until June to hand back the priceless artifact, thought to date from around 1400 BC, else Ankara would revoke permits for other German excavations.

Drones for low elevation aerial images

Drone use in Peruvian archaeology

Theories about Stonehenge have historically tended to regard it as a stand-alone monument. But an increasingly well-supported view holds that Stonehenge was just part of a much larger ceremonial landscape (...) → VIDEO