A discovery of a 6,300-year-old megalithic grave site in central Iberia recalibrates the history of funerary tradition. The ...

The dye used to color the robes was only worn by emperors and the wildly rich—so its use in the burials of two infants raised ...

Archaeologist still depend upon tools used for hundreds of years, but some are taking advantage of what technology offers. Things like ground penetrating radar, microscopes, even satellites. Learn ...

Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a dingo that was buried by ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal Barkindji ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

Introduction -- Science, art and archaeology -- Scientific study of archaeological materials during the Chinese Song Dynasty : a Shen Kua case study -- The role of science in western Chinese jade ...

Archaeological Science, often interchangeably termed archaeometry, represents an inherently interdisciplinary field that blends methods drawn from the physical, chemical, biological, and social ...

An undergraduate student was startled after a finely carved ancient head rolled out during a recent excavation – and seemed to smile back at her. The discovery, made at Skaill Farm on the Scottish ...

Learn about the excavation process of archaeology as Dr. Peter V. Lape and his team dig up the past. Archaeology is the study of human behavior based on the evidence of artifacts excavated from the ...

The center opened to the public in April. Archaeologists at the living history village had to move millions of delicate, ...

Archaeological science integrates laboratory-based analyses, field-survey techniques and computational methods to recover, characterise and interpret traces of past human activity. Drawing on physics, ...