While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, ...

Archaeologists discover ancient site of key Iraq battle thanks to old spy photos - Iraqis who grew up under the rule of ...

The burial is called a “composite inhumation,” a practice in which a group will build a skeleton for social purposes from the ...

An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...

As reported in Antiquity, the materials they found contrasted with those ... without the outside trade connections that ...

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies held the last installment of its public lecture series this past Wednesday in ...

Archaeologists in Tajikistan have discovered a rock-shelter that may have been a migration site for Neanderthals, Denisovans, ...

The findings were published Tuesday in the journal Antiquity. While mapping the route ... The survey team also found pottery shards consistent with the time period when the battle took place. Stay ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...