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

‘Speechless’ experts uncover oldest English poem hiding in medieval book - The poem was composed by a Northumbrian worker in ...

Researchers have advanced the study of late-medieval mercury treatments by analyzing concentrations in dental calculus ...

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

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

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

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.

Thirty scientists have penned scathing responses to a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile is much younger than thought.

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.

A tooth discovered in a Siberian cave shows our extinct cousins used stone tools to conduct dental treatment.