Disappearing patches of ice unleash new artifacts for discovery, but many could quickly degrade exposed to the elements
How Spain chooses to memorialize Francisco Franco and the victims of his authoritarian regime is tearing the nation apart
More than 3,000 years ago, soldiers appear to have traveled hundreds of miles from southern Europe to fight in what is now northern Germany
Drinking vessels found in Bronze and Iron Age children's graves contained proteins from animal milk
The Indus Valley Civilization flourished alongside Mesopotamia and Egypt, but the early society remains shrouded in mystery
The Mustansiriya has withstood centuries of war, floods and architectural butchery, but can it survive its own restoration?
As temperatures rise and ice melts, Norse and Inuit artifacts and human remains decompose more rapidly
Marine archaeologists exploring the 19th-century vessel could discover clues about what befell the sailors of the Franklin expedition
A remnant from a meal long gone, the find in British Columbia could give the region's indigenous communities an important legal claim
At long last, the remains of Mungo Man are at rest after an agonizing clash between modern science and an ancient spirituality
From gorgeous artworks to grimacing corpses, archaeologists are still uncovering the truth about life—and death—in the doomed city
Stone figures with magnetized cheeks and navels suggest the pre-Maya civilization of Monte Alto understood the attractive force
What responsibility do archaeologists have when their research about prehistoric finds is appropriated to make 21st-century arguments about ethnicity?
Archaeologists are discovering that two of the world’s most prized flavors have a much richer history than we thought
A team of scientists sequenced genomes from people who lived in a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel between the 12th and 8th centuries B.C.
Grape seeds dating back to medieval and Roman periods share many similarities with the wine grapes we enjoy today
As early as 10,000 years ago, humans created settlements on elevated forest mounds in parts of southwestern Amazonia
Revolutionary discoveries in archaeology show that the species long maligned as knuckle-dragging brutes deserve a new place in the human story
Written in the language formalized by Sequoyah, these newly translated inscriptions describe religious practices, including the sport of stickball
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