A team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw and the University of Tirana has documented, during the recently concluded excavation campaign, the remains of a monumental construction on the ...

In January 2021, students at a high school across the street from the Colosseum came up with a bold plan. Angered by plans to extend remote learning to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the teenagers ...

More than 5,300 years after his death in the Alps, a famous frozen mummy is still helping scientists make new discoveries − and even bake fresh bread. Researchers studying Ötzi the Iceman have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock It's one thing to analyze a faint residue left behind in an ancient vessel. It's quite another to open one ...

Two Roman-era infants buried in York were dressed in costly, purple-dyed cloth typically only worn by emperors and the wildly rich. As scientists explored gypsum-preserved burials from 1,700 years ago ...

When two British explorers excavated the remnants of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene in 1861, many tombs had already been looted. But the Sanctuary of Apollo still held their greatest find yet. The ...

Archaeologists recently discovered a scarab amulet inside a tomb in the Necropolis of El Toro in Spain. It’s not clear how the scarab got there, but an ancient trade route may have played a role. The ...

A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, teamwork and a calculated kill. By Franz Lidz When a 125,000-year-old elephant ...

A remarkable genetic breakthrough has uncovered what may be one of the clearest snapshots yet of a Neanderthal “community” living together 100,000 years ago in what is now Poland. The findings reveal ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Archaeologists excavating in the ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, behaviour and other traits. The biggest ever study of ancient human DNA shows ...

Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and the author of the Declaration of Independence, was the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. This past Monday marked his 283rd birthday ...