Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a rare iron tool that the Celts used to perform cranial surgery 2,300 years ago. The ...

Two weeks ago, Patrick covered news of several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Mississippi that were ...

Tom Metcalfe is a journalist based in London, England, who writes about archaeology, space, the oceans, and Earth. He has worked as a broadcast journalist for BBC News and Reuters, and his written ...

Most of the pottery recovered from political and administrative centers in El Argar (2200-1550 BCE), such as Tira del Lienzo ...

Merit's head covering was made from real human hair and was buried with her in its own wooden cabinet.

Revolutionary scanning technology has identified two concealed air-filled anomalies behind the eastern facade of Egypt's Menkaure Pyramid, providing the first scientific evidence to support a ...

Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...

Harvard archaeology professor Jason Ur and Johns Hopkins professor Aja M. Lans presented their findings on the enslaved individuals buried in the Old Burying Ground cemetery across from Harvard Yard ...

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of ...