Tag: archaeology

Ancient snail shells helped archeologists re-evaluate the age of the oldest known wooden weapons collection: a site in Lower Saxony, ...

Archaeological evidence of names holding significance over thousands of years has been uncovered in an interdisciplinary study from multiple Israeli ...

Between 1637 and 1697, thousands of bodies were buried beneath a historic hospital in Milan. Designed to accommodate the dead ...

We typically associate mummies with ancient Egypt — or sometimes cheesy old horror movies. Now a newly described mummy from ...

The ancient Egyptians were astute astronomers. They often depicted the cosmos atop coffins. A new survey of such artwork suggests ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 ...

A piece of the Antikythera mechanismLOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called ...

The Dolní Vestonice Portrait Head is just 2 inches tall and 1 inch wide. It’s a tiny face carved into ...

Pinpointing when animals became our companions is harder than it sounds. Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we ...

A ship’s ram found near Sicily that had been used in the Punic warsPeter Horree/Alamy Ancient Greek and Roman warships ...