Marburg researchers detect aloe compounds in ancient Egyptian embalming material and link a mummified head to a separate ...

Chemical tests on chalk from two Jetyasar graves in Kazakhstan point to Silk Road makeup scented with cinnamon, wormwood, and mint oils.

Historical records show harsh winters, floods and famine struck 17th century Transylvania during the Little Ice Age and ...

A La Tène bronze helmet found at Łysa Góra in Poland points to southern visitors and a key stop on the Iron Age Amber Route.

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 ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii opened a wardrobe sealed since 79 CE, revealing a woman's keepsakes, 38 coins, and a childhood ...

Charcoal from a Spanish rock shelter shows how Neanderthals used fire, gathered wood and managed waste around their hearths.

Archaeologists in western Jutland found an Iron Age pit belt, likely a palisade, along the old Drivvej, plus a 4,500-year-old ...

Swedish-led digs at Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus, found 17th-15th century BCE buildings and pottery, tracing the rise of a ...

Researchers found 19th-century shipwrecks and a castaway camp on Isla de los Estados, possibly linked to Luis Piedra Buena's ...

Magnetic survey maps a 48-meter Roman mansio at Mellaria in Spain, a standard roadside station on the Córdoba to Mérida road.

Protein analysis of fossils from northern China and skull comparisons outline a distinctive Denisovan look, with a wide skull ...