Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...

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The research, published in the journal Antiquity by archaeologist and professional trumpet player Miquel López-García and his colleague Margarita Díaz-Andreu from the University of Barcelona, examined ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

A large ancient DNA study reveals that early humans in southern Africa lived in long-term isolation for at least 200,000 ...

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The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Researchers have finally assigned a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, confirming that Lucy’s species wasn’t alone in ancient Ethiopia. This hominin had an opposable big ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.