Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of ...

Two new exhibitions at the Museum of Sydney put local archaeology on show, and invite visitors to hunt for relics.

Archaeologists working at the animal cemetery at Berenike have documented remains from three dozen primates, marking a significant shift in Roman pet-keeping practices. Previously, the handful of ...

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

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Find out which Indian university has the oldest archaeological collection, why students should be aware of this historic ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Standing at the engraved stone, one can imagine that more than 2,200 years ago, a group of envoys dispatched by Emperor ...

A newly uncovered fossil site beneath theJava Sea is shifting scientific perspectives on early human survival and prehistoric ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

Researchers reviewed a number of studies pointing to the early use of plant foods by prehistoric humans and discovered that ...