Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The ...

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Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E. A new study proposes that the impressive ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the spring of 2024. This email was from a thrift shop, Thrifty Boutique in ...

Find marks first systematically identified burial site associated with plague burials in Europe, scientists say ...

An archaeology team from Texas Tech University in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archaeologists Kay Hindes, Jim Bruseth, Tiffany Osburn and Brad Jones found the lost site of Mission ...

A Sudan desert burial site contained two clay vessels, one with the remains of a campfire. The campfire was probably part of a funeral ritual, and the remains—which likely held the scraps of a funeral ...