Archaeology

Some 9,000 years ago, corn, as it is known today, did not exist. Ancient peoples in southwestern Mexico encountered a wild grass called teosinte that offered ears smaller than a pinky finger with just a handful of stony kernels.

Ancient Punt was a major trading partner of Egyptians for at least 1,100 years. It was an important source of luxury goods, including incense, gold, leopard skins, and living baboons.

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of grave goods in the tomb of a Silla Princess, buried in the city of Gyeongju, in the North Gyeongsang Province of South Korea.

Archaeologists conducting excavations at Chedworth Roman Villa in Gloucestershire, England, have discovered the first known Roman mosaic that dates from the 5th century AD.

Archaeologists conducting excavations at the Phoenician site of Cabezo Pequeño del Estaño, located in the Alicante province town of Guardamar del Segura on Spain’s southeastern Costa Blanca have discovered a large Phoenician defensive moat.

Archaeologists conducting a study of California’s Pinwheel Cave, a Native American rock art site associated with the Chumash people, have discovered evidence of mind-altering psychedelics.

New lipid residue analyses have revealed a dominance of animal products, such as the meat of animals like pigs, cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat as well as dairy products, used in ancient ceramic vessels from rural and urban settlements of the Indus Civilisation in north-west India, the present-day states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Ancient Amazonian villages built between AD 1300 to 1700 and laid out like a clock to possibly represent the Native American cosmos have been discovered in Brazil’s south Acre State.

Time Team, the highly successful archaeology tv program on Channel 4 has reached its campaign goal of 1000 sponsors in just three days, to bring back the show in some format.

One of world's earliest examples of art, the enigmatic `Venus' figurines carved some 30,000 years ago, have intrigued and puzzled scientists for nearly two centuries.

Time Team, the highly successful archaeology tv program on Channel 4 has announced a possible return to the trenches with a crowdfunding Patreon campaign to relaunch the show.

Water and air are highly mutable resources that exist in a myriad of physical states and dimensions, and due to their affectivity, these entities participate in a multitude of interactions capable of sustaining life, transforming environments, and shaping human behavior.