The excavators of the Bronze Age tomb discovered in Pylos (southwestern Greece) provided more information about the extraordinary find during a meeting with Greek Minister of Culture Aristidis Baltas.
Excavations under the direction of Payson Sheets of the University of Colorado, Boulder, continue at Cerén, a Maya village in El Salvador that was buried under 17 feet of volcanic ash in A.D. 660.
New research from the University of Bristol has found that the feeding style and dietary preferences of dinosaurs was closely linked to how wide they could open their jaws.
Shells from an archaeological site in Northeast Morocco dated from 10,800 to 6,700 years old showed that the climate grew warmer and could have supported the switch from hunting and gathering to agriculture.
Excavations at a necropolis of a Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age settlement have yielded a large number of encrusted ceramics from three distinct chronological stages.
The finds were “silent remnants of the battles that took place there in the days of the Hasmoneans,” the priestly family that led the Maccabean rebellion against the Seleucid rule.
The tomb of the man who helped China's only female emperor rise to power bears epitaphs describing how she executed him and his entire family, seeking revenge for his brother's betrayal.
Archaeologists have managed to virtually reconstitute in 3D the inaccessible contents of a fragile and damaged 17th century metallic box. The box was found at Saint-Laurent church excavation in Grenoble.
Münster classical scholars discovered invaluable ancient Syrian mosaics and buildings and are excavating one of the few sites that are currently accessible for studies on ancient Roman Syria.
The ground-breaking discovery of a Stone Age “eco” home could be under threat if controversial Government-backed plans for a tunnel go through the ancient site.
Women have long interacted with the Holy Mountain—visually and imaginatively, through the mediation of objects and people, of pictures and words. A lecture by Veronica della Dora.
The poor conditions of its decoration as well as the (seemingly) lack of royal names from its inscriptions made the site a never ending puzzle for scholars. Till now.
Radiocarbon analysis of the decline and extinction of large mammals in the Americas lends support to the idea that hunting by humans led to the animals' demise.
This ancient Egyptian word list of the fifteenth century BC is the earliest known example of a list arranged according to their initial sounds. It gives a vital insight into the earliest known stages of the alphabet.