The research, published in the journal Antiquity by archaeologist and professional trumpet player Miquel López-García and his colleague Margarita Díaz-Andreu from the University of Barcelona, examined ...

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 ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Archaeologists excavating the remains of a Roman city in Portugal have discovered a rare bronze inkwell filled with the ...

Archaeologists are pushing the origins of art far deeper into prehistory than anyone expected, revealing painted symbols and ...

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

A mysterious deep-sea creature has just helped scientists solve a long-standing evolutionary puzzle. The vampire squid—an ...

Many of the ancient southern Africans, including those who lived between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago, "fall outside the ...

Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient humans ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.

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

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...