The more welcoming side of Medusa turns typical mythology upside down, with the smile likely designed to represent peace and ...

From royal tombs to submerged ports, via the genetic secrets of ancient civilisations, archaeology delivered a series of ...

At first blush, the Savannah River Site and archaeology might seem like an odd pairing. After all, one was initially a ...

Seventh-century Anglo-Saxon jewelry found on a hillside in Lincolnshire; as there were no graves, these may have been ...

Famed archaeologist Robert Grenier, who led the discovery of the 16th-century Basque whaling ship the San Juan in Labrador, ...

An exploration of what ‘time immemorial’ really means in Indigenous history and archaeology, challenging conventional narratives about human presence in the Americas.

Human eyes are as individual as fingerprints. Like those of a living person, the eyes of this ceramic figurine discovered recently at the site of Xanab Chak in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

Some of the most puzzling worlds in our telescopes’ catalogs may not be worlds at all, but relics from the first instants ...

The Kenyan-born British artist is the subject of an Belgian exhibition, showcasing her unique and studied take on the ceramic ...

The actor and newly minted Olay ambassador reflects on her influence on pop culture and why she no longer feels the need to ...