Researchers suggest the practice was a response to Spanish conquistadors' desecration of the remains
Mineralized feces chock-full of parasitic eggs indicate that it wasn’t the lower classes alone who suffered from certain infectious diseases
Analysis of ash from a massive volcanic eruption places the famed Omo I fossil 36,000 years back in time
In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment. Now a small team of archaeologists are protecting it from more modern threats
Remarkable samples from an ancient culture offer scientists a promising new way to study the past
Thrilling discoveries, hurdles in the fight against Covid and advancements in space exploration defined the past year
Analysis of 4,500 artifacts suggests an early society between the Black and Caspian Seas turned against bling
Exciting secrets unearthed on Haida Gwaii include a canine tooth, roughly 11,000-year-old stone tools and the tantalizing signs of far more to come
Featuring ingots, shipwrecks and an international trade in colors, the material’s rich past is being traced using modern archaeology and materials science
Beneath a desert in Israel, a scholar and his team are unearthing astonishing new evidence of an advanced society in the time of the biblical Solomon
From Pompeii to modern laboratories, scholars are working to recreate garum, a sauce made from decaying fish that delighted ancient Rome
Tree ring evidence of an ancient solar storm enables scientists to pinpoint the exact year of Norse settlement
Excavations at a site in northern Israel are at the heart of a debate about the species' migrations
In the frigid Baltic Sea, archaeologists probing the surprisingly well-preserved remains of a revolutionary warship are seeing the era in a new way
Humans likely sported clothes made of jackal, fox and wildcat skins some 120,000 years ago
Three thousand years ago desert dwellers fatally stabbed and bashed each other, possibly due to diminishing resources
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The ancient plants at the heart of the conflict are essential to science—and might hold clues to new superfoods
When news broke worldwide of an incredible find in Colombia, local experts and guides say their knowledge was misrepresented
A mysterious Middle Pleistocene skull from a Chinese well has inspired debate among paleoanthropologists
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