Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small ...

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

An archaeological revolution has overturned decades of assumptions.

The same plaster used in art and architecture also helped keep the deceased intact for years.

Thirty scientists have penned scathing responses to a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile is much younger than thought.

Ancient remains dating back some 8,000 years have been discovered in a field in England during preparation to build a massive ...

Visitors to the Yorkshire Museum can see artifacts from the Melsonby Hoard, dating to the first century C.E., that rewrite ...

Archaeology is not just a powerful tool for revealing insights into the ancient past, but it can also be applied to more recent events. In a new paper published in the journal Antiquity, scientists ...

The tooth of an ancient mummy from a civilisation that preceded the Inca Empire has opened up a new way of thinking ...

A landmark archaeological site in Chile may be thousands of years younger than originally thought, a new study claims. If validated, the finding would upend a key piece of evidence that humans reached ...

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