Historical records from 1350 show that as many as 12,000 people were buried in 11 “ plague pits ” outside the city of Erfurt, ...

The Romans knew their way around Europe. They also knew how to build with a view. A 2,000-year-old stone wall unearthed in a ...

In a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Dr. Ellery Frahm and his colleagues analyzed two ...

The 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman mummy and a prehistoric man who lived in Siberia 45,000 years ago both carried a ...

The people at the center of this discovery are known as the Sambaqui. For nearly 7,000 years, these groups lived along the ...

Across the world’s continental shelves, archaeologists are racing a rising tide of development and climate change to map and ...

Archaeologists recovered the naturally mummified remains of more than 100 Indigenous Yakuts who were buried in Siberia ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

An ancient cremation would have been a community spectacle in a place returned to and reignited over many generations. What ...

Archaeologist still depend upon tools used for hundreds of years, but some are taking advantage of what technology offers. Things like ground penetrating radar, microscopes, even satellites. Learn ...

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Archaeological Science, often interchangeably termed archaeometry, represents an inherently interdisciplinary field that blends methods drawn from the physical, chemical, biological, and social ...