As the hullabaloo surrounding the Aug. 21 total eclipse of the sun swells by the day, a University of Colorado Boulder faculty...
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the ancestors of modern humans diverged from an archaic lineage that gave rise to Neanderthals and...
Norway is famed for its cod. Catches from the Arctic stock that spawns each year off its northern coast are exported across...
By analyzing the DNA of two prehistoric dogs from Germany, an international research team led by Krishna R. Veeramah, Ph.D., of Stony...
Mid-summer corn on the cob is everywhere, but where did it all come from and how did it get to be the...
New insights into the lifeways - and death rites - of the ancient people of Ireland are being provided through funerary studies...
The first review of the global impact of humans on tropical forests in the ancient past shows that humans have been altering...
Homer’s Iliad is usually thought of as the first work of European literature, and many would say, the greatest. It tells part...
Evidence of the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians is currently being unearthed in the City of David in...
An analysis of ancient DNA has revealed that Ancient Minoans and Mycenaens were genetically similar with both peoples descending from early Neolithic...
Devon farmers who made their home in the same remote location for 1,200 years had a taste for exotic imported food and...
Malaria was already widespread on Sardinia by the Roman period, long before the Middle Ages, as indicated by research at the Institute...
Using new methods to analyze stone projectile points crafted by North America's earliest human inhabitants, Smithsonian scientists have found that these tools...
Soon-to-be published research undertaken by MOLA archaeologists who excavated the new Elizabeth line station at Liverpool Street reveals stories of bodysnatching and...
The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through...
A Bronze Age wooden container found in an ice patch at 2,650m in the Swiss Alps could help archaeologists shed new light...
A Pictish fort thought to have been largely destroyed by 19th century development has yielded surprising treasures including an 1100 year old...
Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) announces a collaborative maritime archaeology project surveying shipwrecks of the German High Seas Fleet and the...
Arts Minister John Glen has placed a temporary export bar on an exceptionally rare bronze Roman figurine to provide an opportunity to...
Londinium was a settlement established on the current site of the City of London around AD 50. It served as a major...
Archaeologists from Durham University in the UK have become the first UK team to excavate inside the walls of the Forbidden City...
An archaeological project which is taking place on the site of a medieval castle near Ormskirk, West Lancashire, has been set up...