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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

Still, the “board game” framing has a quiet strength: it’s testable. Scholars can compare wear patterns, spatial logic, and symbol clustering against known game-board behaviors, rather than betting ...

A lot of little kids go through the dinosaur phase, and I was no exception. But where most broke off into loving sports or ...