Excavations in Rome’s Pietralata uncover ancient roads, tombs, and a Hercules shrine, revealing daily life and religious ...

New research reveals traces of plant toxins on arrow tips in South Africa, suggesting that the technique was used tens of ...

Deep beneath a quiet stretch of western Europe, researchers have uncovered the ghost of a community that flourished long ...

In New Jersey, we take our bargain hunting seriously—it’s practically written into the state constitution between “right to complain about traffic” and “duty to debate the best bagel shop.” And in ...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...

The bad news for Philadelphia is that these advantages are being squandered by leadership that can’t translate assets into ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

Far off the coast of Brittany, a line of stone blocks lies hidden beneath the Atlantic, preserved where dry land once met the sea. Archaeologists now argue that this submerged barrier, built around 7, ...

A small town on the coast of Cyprus was destroyed in an earthquake in the early 4th century. Archaeologists beginning in the 1930’s started to excavate the town of Kourion but two of them died from ...

The waters of the Bay of Naples may seem a far cry from the deserts of modern Jordan and Saudi Arabia, home of the ancient Nabataeans, a Semitic-speaking people who established a powerful kingdom in ...