A sticky residue discovered inside bronze jars at an ancient Greek shrine in southern Italy has been conclusively identified, ...

The victims of the Pompeii eruption wore heavy wool cloaks and tunics, suggesting different environmental conditions in summer. (University of Valencia) ...

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 ...

A late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age grave has revealed ancient strategies to keep the dead from turning into “revenants” and ...

Sahura sits amongst the Abusir complex, a popular burial site near the Nile River for pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a diverse array of bird species soared, swam, and thrived amid their scaly reptile cousins—and ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

Archaeologists uncover a 2,500-year-old Iron Age site in Afghanistan, revealing stone structures, a drikning vessel and early ...

Archaeologists have uncovered over 270,000 ancient beads in a 5,000-year-old tomb in Spain, revealing a hidden world of ...

The floor of the Cueva de Mono, a cave in the Dominican Republic, is a gruesome graveyard. For thousands of years, it served ...

“It should be emphasized that it was on Ostrów Lednicki that the oldest Christian liturgical objects ever found in Poland ...

City-sized butterfly crater discovered in Mars’ Idaeus Fossae region Wings suggest buried ice melted by asteroid impact ...