Archaeologists have long trusted the microscopic smears left on ancient pots and bowls to reconstruct what people once cooked ...

Poland detained a Russian archaeologist who works on an ancient site in Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014. Ukraine calls ...

A new study shows that Etruscan cities grew through shifting land use, farming, and settlement patterns in ancient Italy.

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

The Jerusalem Regional Archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority, Dr. Amit Re’im, walks in a section of an excavation site where, according to the ...

Underwater archaeologists have uncovered the wreckage of an ancient Egyptian pleasure barge in Alexandria's sunken harbour - ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...

The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

A Greek merchant ship discovered more than a mile under the surface of the Black Sea has been radiocarbon dated to 2,400 years ago, making it the world’s oldest known intact shipwreck. The vessel was ...