A new study of Petra’s ‘Ain Braq aqueduct has revealed a surprisingly sophisticated water-delivery setup, including a rare lead pipeline that suggests engineers were moving water under pressure across ...
Archaeologists analysing a glass vial found in Turkey have discovered the first hard evidence that human faeces was used to treat ailments ...
Researchers are opening a new investigation into the timbers, which may have once belonged to the "Tyger," a Dutch trading vessel that sank in 1613 ...
Here, I see activity going back 1.76 million years with a complete sequence," Liu says. He was particularly struck by the ...
Treasure hunting isn’t just for pirates and Indiana Jones – it’s alive and well at J&J Flea Market in Athens, Georgia, where ...
Deep beneath the waves, something is shifting. Life once drawn to sunken whales and wood is missing, leaving the seafloor ...
Ancient tools from China show early humans made complex, hafted technologies 160,000 years ago, reshaping views of innovation ...
Scientists have discovered 3,500-year-old rhinoceros bone fragments near Coimbatore, revealing that rhinos once lived in ...
It is the most important archaeological discovery of the last decade in Mexico due to its level of preservation and the ...
A new book by author Julian Sancton explores the lengthy quest to find the Spanish galleon—and the political firestorm that ...
An ancient tomb dating to 600AD unearthed in southern Mexico has been hailed as the “most significant archaeological ...
We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human existence, we were healthy, free-roaming hunter-gatherers. It was only when ...