Archaeologists will soon have access to new digital tools for reassembly and erosion, while advances in predictive scanning could open up new market opportunities.
The ancient bereavement practices from the the Central Apulian region in pre-Roman Italy helps shed light on economic and social mobility, military service and even drinking customs.
Scientists discover Helicobacter pylori in the contents of Otzi's stomach -- along with some unexpected insights into the coexistence of man and bacterium.
The evidence for a new geological epoch which marks the impact of human activity on the Earth is now overwhelming according to a recent paper by an international group of geoscientists.
Archaeological evidence shows that intestinal parasites such as whipworm became increasingly common across Europe during the Roman Period, despite the apparent improvements the empire brought in sanitation technologies.
The Rotunda Church in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, also known as the Church of Agios Georgios, is again visitable since last week, freed from the scaffolding and restored.
The Ancient Egyptian papyrus Cairo 86637 calendar contains lucky or unlucky prognoses for each day of one year. Researchers have performed a statistical analysis of the Cairo Calendar mythological texts.
Dr. Mamdouh Eldamaty declared today that the tomb of Maya, the wet nurse of King Tutankhamun will be opened soon for the first time in front of national and international visitors.
Religion has led to social tension and conflict, not just in today's society, but dating back to 700 B.C. according to a new study published in Current Anthropology.
A necropolis consisting of over 100 mounds, in which Great Steppe nomads were buried 2500 years ago, has been studied by a Russian-Polish team of archaeologists in the vicinity of Mangerok in the North Altai in Russia.
Excavations at the Kursi site on the shores of the Sea of Galilee have uncovered an inscription in Hebrew letters engraved on a large marble slab, dating back ca. 1,600 years.
A thigh bone found in China suggests an ancient species of human thought to be long extinct may have survived until as recently as the end of the last Ice Age.
Finally the Famous Mask of the Boy King is in display at its original place inside the Egyptian Museum- Tahrir Square after two months of restoration work.
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities received this week an ancient Egyptian Stela from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after it was repatriated from the UK last October.