An archaeologist reveals what she learned from sifting through a 200-year-old rat nest recovered from a historic Philadelphia ...

The Ancestral Puebloans built massive cliff dwellings, complex villages, and far-reaching trade networks. Then, by the late ...

A Madras University student discovers possible Middle Palaeolithic stone tools at Mallankinaru, Virudhunagar, sparking archaeological interest.

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Analysis of latrine sediments at the Roman fort of Vindolanda has revealed that at least three parasites were widespread ...

Jia Xiaobing, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says the latest studies on the Hongshan culture's ...

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

The grave makers of the Early Bronze Age had their own strategies for keeping the dead... well ... dead. In fear of “revenant” people—think zombies—recovering from death to torment those still alive, ...

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...

Researchers have launched a specially commissioned series of beer mats about Ireland’s peatlands in pubs across Dublin and ...

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

Generative AI is already reshaping writing, art, and film. Now, archaeologists are using it to let players talk to the past.