Archaeology

For more than a century, one of North America's most enigmatic bird-like dinosaurs has been known to science by little...

Thousands of years before clay vessels became an ordinary fixture of human households, the hillsides of the ancient southern Levant...

Stonehenge, arguably the most scrutinized prehistoric monument on Earth, has yielded yet another surprise — not from new excavations, but...

In the largest and longest-ranging bioarchaeological investigation ever attempted on a single Iberian city, researchers have reconstructed the biological history...

In a remarkable meeting of physics and history, an international team of researchers has uncovered a hidden code of intent...

In a small riverside community in southeastern Ghana, archaeology is being rebuilt from the ground up—not in laboratories or excavation...

The bones of medieval cattle and sheep have yielded a surprisingly detailed economic history of England, one that stretches across...

Deep beneath the eaves of a nearly thousand-year-old timber temple in China's Shanxi Province, scientists have uncovered molecular evidence that...

On the coast of Kenya, about fifteen kilometers north of Mombasa, lies the abandoned stone town of Mtwapa, once a...

For the emperors of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty, governing meant moving. Each spring the entire court struck its tents and...