Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for archaeologists, its ubiquitous presence in excavated pottery offers a window ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before ...

Learn more about a new technology that is turning ancient teeth into one of archaeology’s most powerful tools.

While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

New research reveals ancient humans in southern Africa lived in isolation for nearly 100,000 years. This led to unique ...

Ongoing excavations in the suburban villa of Civita Giuliana, on the outskirts of Pompeii, are uncovering a complex economic ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors unified the land, people were already experimenting with civilization, laying ...

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A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...