The grave makers of the Early Bronze Age had their own strategies for keeping the dead... well ... dead. In fear of “revenant” people—think zombies—recovering from death to torment those still alive, ...

A site in Switzerland contained evidence of an administrative center that was part of a bigger plan to build a urban center ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

This ancient crocodile never finished its last meal. More than 2,000 years after it died, researchers can still make out a ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science" reporting reveals topical and regional disparities, including an apparent ...

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

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the ...

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

A teenage boy who lived more than 6,000 years ago was able to survive a lion attack and live for several months afterwards, a ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

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