New research from Bournemouth University shows Verica, the Iron Age ruler behind the Roman invasion of Britain, was a woman, ...
Researchers found 280 Ice Age engravings in Cova de la Font Major, Catalonia, revealing a Palaeolithic art tradition in north ...
DNA from a 5th-century boat burial in Germany reveals a man with ancient leprosy whose ancestry points to the Roman Danube ...
Eight broken limestone pieces from Khuwy's tomb at Saqqara hold an ideal biography naming King Djedkare and Queen Setibhor.
Archaeologists at Old Dongola in Sudan reached the floor of the Great Church of Jesus and found a hidden church with Greek ...
A dig at Sidi Saïd, Tunisia, reveals a nearly complete Numidian house plan, Carthaginian pottery and a pre-Roman cemetery ...
A 28,000-year-old Gravettian couple from Grotta delle Veneri di Parabita goes on display at the MuSA museum in Lecce, Italy, from November 5.
Marburg researchers detect aloe compounds in ancient Egyptian embalming material and link a mummified head to a separate ...
Early humans crossed the world’s largest sand sea with plenty of fresh water around, yet they left nothing behind. A team led by researchers at the University of Vienna and the University of the ...
Archaeologists in Pompeii opened a wardrobe sealed since 79 CE, revealing a woman's keepsakes, 38 coins, and a childhood ...
Archaeologists at Saqqara uncovered the tomb of Weni, an Old Kingdom official, with rare wooden statues and bronze tools that ...
A student found an intact 6-inch Lehigh/Koens-Crispin spear point, up to 4,500 years old, in a tidal inlet on a Virginia ...