Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

Archaeologists uncover a mysterious Bronze Age ritual landscape in Murayghat with more than 95 ceremonial monuments.

The Roman Empire had an impressive road network. A new dataset now visualizes the road map, adding over 100,000 kilometers of ...

Dabbs of Southern Illinois University and Anna Stevens of Monash University reviewed the archaeological and bioarchaeological evidence for plague in Akhetaten, the capital city built by the Egyptian ...

Fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon shows that Indigenous communities shaped and sustained complex productive wetlands for more ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors. Archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf, pictured in his office ...

Thanks to the cave’s arid conditions, when archaeologists ... study’s lead author, works with is much fresher. An environmental microbiologist at Indiana University, Capone studies how sanitation ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus ...

Archaeologist still depend upon tools used for hundreds of years, but some are taking advantage of what technology offers. Things like ground penetrating radar, microscopes, even satellites. Learn ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient well in eastern Croatia have discovered the skeletons of seven men whose bodies had been tossed in haphazardly. Experts think the remains belong to Roman soldiers ...