Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in  New Mexico may have uncovered the earliest known traces of such a ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Beneath the sands of Saqqara lies the Serapeum, where colossal granite boxes spark debate over whether ancient builders had ...

For more than a century, researchers have documented physical evidence in Egypt that does not match the tools officially ...

Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

SCIENTISTS are scratching their heads as 3I/ATLAS reaches its closest point to Earth, but it’s not behaving like a typical ...

Learn more about a new technology that is turning ancient teeth into one of archaeology’s most powerful tools.