An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

CT residents are invited to learn about recent archaeological discoveries and ongoing research across the state during an annual public lecture.

Tabloids have seized on the most headline-friendly takeaway - “pulleys built the pyramid” - but the underlying claim is more specific: the pyramid may have grown “inside-out,” using internal sloped ...