The research, published in PLOS One, analyzed ancient DNA from 111 individuals excavated at 19 archaeological sites across ...

The Voynich manuscript may be difficult to read for a surprisingly physical reason: its pages could have been assembled in ...

OLD BENNINGTON – Archaeology crews excavating around the Bennington Monument are off this week but plan to return Sunday, ...

The Roman emperor Magnus Maximus ruled territory stretching from Spain to Britain in the late fourth century C.E. Medieval ...

The persistent myth of bearded European deities introducing civilization to the ancient Americas remains a topic of intense ...

Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities will host a free public conference Oct. 30 examining survival through climate ...

In 1974, farmers digging a well near Xi’an, in central China, stumbled upon one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Buried underground were thousands of life-sized clay ...

A stone coffin with a Roman name carved into its side ought to hold the Roman it names. The limestone sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey bears the name Valerius Amandinus, but the man inside died about ...

You won’t be able to see Halley's Comet in the night sky until 2061, but the world will get a chance to see fragments of this ...

Archaeologists have long read the polished stone sickles of early China as harvesting tools, invented to bring in the first ...

Archaeologist Waheeb of Jordan’s Hashemite University argues that the “true place” of Christ’s baptism was Bethany beyond the Jordan on the eastern bank of the Jordan River in a location known as ...

Proposed excavation of a mound in the Madhya Pradesh temple town is likely to reveal a stupa bigger than the one at the world ...