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

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.

Archaeologists discovered the 20-karat-gold dental wire in the lower jaw of a middle-aged man who lived around 500 years ago ...

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.

In a classic example of lucky metal detectorists triggering an archaeological investigation, a group of metal detecting enthusiasts in England discovered a rare hoard of early medieval Anglo-Saxon ...