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

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 ...

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

While you may believe that it's hard to learn anything new about a structure that has been around for thousands of years, ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

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

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

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

A pioneering robotic system is set to revolutionise the painstaking task of reassembling Pompeii 's ancient Roman frescoes, ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use nearly 8,000 years earlier.

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