Archaeology

According to research published on Monday, Neanderthals, long thought to be unsophisticated and brutish, did indeed paint stalagmites in a...

The Israel Museum has obtained more than 1,200 ancient silver Persian coins, among the earliest known coinage from the region,...

Recently, archeologists have found an ancient mausoleum in which there was the most significant illegal silversmithing site in Roman Britain....

The skeletons, which are between 7,500 and 3,500 years old, contain DNA that may be used to track migration waves...

Using x-ray light, a team of researchers hopes to expose the writing hidden under 2,000-year-old burnt papyri from Herculaneum. Scholars...

The first strain of Yersinia pestis – the germs that caused the Black Death, a terrible bubonic plague pandemic in...

When archaeologists uncovered a 2,000year-old skull bound with metal evidence of ancient surgery, they were taken aback. Archaeologists have been...

A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists said Tuesday that they had discovered a 9,000year-old monument in Jordan's eastern deserts....

Intricate tube structures discovered in ancient reefs could be the remains of prehistoric horny sponges and the world's oldest known...

'Cheddar Man,' Britain's oldest skeleton, had a dark complexion, and DNA analysis revealed that he has a living relative currently...