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

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The Indus Valley Civilization, now referred to as the Sindhu-Saraswati civilization by Indian historians, peaked between 5,000 and 3,500 years ago across modern-day northwest India and Pakistan. Their ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

Using ancient Chinese eclipse records, scientists have calculated the Earth’s variable rotational speed back to the year 709 ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

British archaeologists have made a discovery they believe points to an unusual ancient monument that once stood in Northwest ...

Latest advancements in technology are aiding archaeological and anthropological research. A new EU-funded robot is helping archaeologists reassemble Pompeii's frescoes, while scientists have ...

Cornell (NY, USA) researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move ...

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