A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

The newly excavated basilica is the only building definitively attributed to Marcus Vitruvius Pollonius, a founding figure of ...

Archaeologists unearth the first physical evidence of a basilica designed by the legendary Roman architect Vitruvius.

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

Long before satellites and sonar, entire cities vanished beneath water—some swallowed by earthquakes, others ...

Still, the “board game” framing has a quiet strength: it’s testable. Scholars can compare wear patterns, spatial logic, and symbol clustering against known game-board behaviors, rather than betting ...

Archaeologists found a 300 ton shipwreck that is the largest vessel of its kind ever found in the Baltic region.

One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier ...

A lot of little kids go through the dinosaur phase, and I was no exception. But where most broke off into loving sports or ...

In a prominent paper published in 1977,Xia drew on nearly 100 radiocarbon-dated samples to systematically establish absolute ...

Tennessee's annual archaeology conference is set for January 24th, featuring diverse research and discoveries.

Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...