The Ancient Origins News Desk

Archaeologists have discovered a rare Maya canoe in a cenote during excavations for a controversial train project.

Latest dating of an ancient dugout canoe found under Lake Mendota dates dates about 5,200 years - older than the Great Pyramid - revealing long Indigenous use of Great Lakes waterways.

The Russian RIA news agency has reported a remarkable find of an ancient Greek Corinthian helmet. The discovery was made in the Taman Peninsula in the southwest of Russia. The helmet was unearthed during the excavation of a Greek necropolis in the area by the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IA RAS).

A team of archaeologists has detected a conurbation of houses at a hill fort that once hosted some of the earliest occupants of a New Forest town, an area of southern England which includes one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Britain.

Did Ötzi the Iceman carry a cancer-linked strain of HPV? New genetic analysis suggests HPV16 may have been with modern humans far longer than previously thought.