In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a team (led by researchers from Uppsala University) describes how they mined ancient DNA from teeth and ...

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later in China and Mesoamerica. "The Stone Age sign sequences are an early ...

A team of archaeologists in central Italy has uncovered a sealed Etruscan tomb dating back 2,600 years, what they found ...

Constructed between 1926 and 1929, the Hammond Castle in Gloucester served as a home, laboratory and a place to showcase ...

U.S. military shoots down Border Patrol drone over Texas. And Anthropic rejects Pentagon's AI access ultimatum.

The Ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” turned me into a believer. We talked to the curators and conservators to learn how it ...

The Oldham County History Center has announced a new cultural and community Native American program, Spirit Sound Walkers, an Indigenous-led gathering centered on healing, belonging, and creativity th ...

The find was made on a farmer's land in western Wales, museum Amgueddfa Cymru said.

Walter Crist, who researches ancient games at Leiden University in the Netherlands, first saw the carved limestone in 2020, at the Het Romeins Museum. Located in the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, ...

They use bulldozers, massive drilling rigs, sonar, metal detectors and ground-penetrating radar. They dig hundreds of feet into the earth. They sift through dirt by the ton. And after all that effort, ...