At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

Ceramics are one of the most important sources of information for archaeologists. Yet how these objects are produced, ...

The grave makers of the Early Bronze Age had their own strategies for keeping the dead... well ... dead. In fear of “revenant ...

Sites that appear on the surface as scattered stones suddenly become coherent, organized spaces, and it saves a lot of ...

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Scientists in France may be hot on the trail of a long-lost canal that the Romans built over two millennia ago while battling the Celts. At that time, the Roman Republic was protecting its new ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu state department of archaeology will organise an international science conference in Madurai from Jan 22 ...