The myth of Persephone or Proserpina explains how Ancient Greece and Rome linked seasonal change with ritual, calendar, and ...

The United Kingdom is studded with megalithic formations dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze ages. Many are finding in ...

For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient marketplace.

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Archaeologists have completed the first comprehensive technological mapping of an intricate underground tunnel system beneath the ancient Etruscan city of Veii, revealing a sophisticated network of ...

New evidence suggests Poverty Point’s monumental mounds were created not by a ruling elite, but by egalitarian groups drawn together by shared ritual purpose. Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer ...

An experiment on reptile decomposition aims to shed light on a variety of paleontological mysteries, including why so many ...

Workers digging for a new road near Perth, Scotland, uncovered a 2,500-year-old underground stone chamber that ancient people ...

From Cheops to Ramses II” is more than an immersive Egyptian travelogue, though it hits all the major tourist destinations.

A machine-learning-enhanced approach to chemical analysis is drastically expanding the chemical record of life on Earth, and ...

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Through cutting-edge forensic science and ancient DNA analysis, scientists have solved one of medieval Europe's most enduring archaeological mysteries. The victim, Duke Béla of Macsó, was a member of ...