Researchers are now investigating a Viking Age grave with preserved skeletal remains and jewelry. The grave was found at Val ...
A tree stump from an ancient submerged forest that is at least 6,000 years old protrudes from a beach at low tide at Pett Level in Sussex, England. (M.J. Thomas) (Ken Feisel) Experts from the British ...
From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
Archaeologists working beneath one of Christianity’s holiest shrines say they have uncovered traces of a cultivated garden ...
Archaeologists working beneath one of Christianity’s holiest shrines say they have uncovered traces of a cultivated landscape ...
In 1791, the British naval vessel HMS Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef while pursuing the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. The mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, staged an uprising against ...
Archaeologists have a group of unlikely allies: trees. Dendrochronology, the scientific method of studying tree rings, can pinpoint the age of archaeological sites using information stored inside old ...