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

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 ...

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 new digital map increases the Roman road network by nearly 100%. An international research team has created a new map of the Roman Empire — and it expands the ancient road network by more than ...

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

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...