No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally. Each fascinating find brings ...

Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that are older, more complex, and more surprising than the history books ever ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

The third sampling area of the SQuARE project aboard the ISS. Walsh et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 The word “archaeology” conjures up countless images in the cultural imagination: ancient ...

We often read about great civilizations, lost cities, and ancient marvels in history books. But let’s be honest, sometimes words on a page don’t quite capture the magic. What really brings the past ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have unearthed two more victims of the estimated 16,000 total who perished during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 C.E. Skeletons of a middle-aged woman and a ...

Humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the ultimate flexible eaters—chasing carbohydrates and fats from plant and animal sources alike. A new study in the Journal of Archaeological ...