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The burial spot was found in one of the Herculaneum scrolls charred by Mt. Vesuvius.
A poignant, 2,000-year-old burial in northern Italy could be the latest evidence of an ancient friendship.
Although human beings arrived on Earth just ~300,000 years ago, we've transformed the entire planet completely. Here's how we did it.
Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
New radiocarbon dating reveals astonishing insights.
These scrolls are the only remaining intact library of ancient Rome — and they will crumble at a touch.
The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.
Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure.
The Uros of Lake Titicaca live on floating islands made from reeds. How did they get there?
The study suggests that human ancestors expanded across Europe faster than previously thought.
New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
Skilled hunters adapted to the changing landscape and left tantalizing clues to who they were.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth's magnetic field.
Along with obsidian that dazzled scientists in Canada.
The Parthenon embodies the ideals of perfection Classical Greeks sought from architecture. The neighboring Erechtheion offers something else.
The volcano’s historic eruption preserved an ancient library, but rendered its content illegible. A public competition aims to change that.
"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."
Perhaps it’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.
The clash of academic archaeology and what might be called folk archaeology comes into stark focus at Stonehenge.
Destruction of the Ukrainian dam unleashed a catastrophic flood—and surfaced centuries of cultural heritage. Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.
These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.
Tikal, one of the biggest cities the Maya ever built, was home to a vast and flourishing society.
The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?