Our team — which includes archaeologists from Macquarie University, France's HiSoMA research unit, and the Polish Academy of ...

Dental plaque from medieval skeletons reveals its widespread use as a toxic cure.

Interior of the Pantheon, Rome. (Francesco Riccardo Iacomino/Moment/Getty Images) The Roman Empire helped transform humanity ...

An international team of archaeologists using satellite technology has discovered 260 gigantic, 6,000-year-old mass graves ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

In a study published in the journal PLOS One, researchers from the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography ...

An archaeological revolution has overturned decades of assumptions.

A burial of an elite Roman-era woman who appears to have been buried with exotic resins has been discovered in Colchester.

A hiker who paused to examine an old, uprooted tree found something much rarer than roots during a recent walk in the hills ...

Rising abruptly from the lush, untamed jungles of southeastern Venezuela, Mount Roraima is a geological behemoth that defies ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Archaeological science integrates laboratory-based analyses, field-survey techniques and computational methods to recover, characterise and interpret traces of past human activity. Drawing on physics, ...