Archaeology

A new digital mapping project aims to protect coastal UNESCO World Heritage sites from intensifying sea-level rise, flooding, and coastal...

A Smithsonian-led team with Texas A&M researchers has traced ancient human movement through the genomes of Central American avocados. DNA...

A new biomolecular archaeology study is using food residues trapped inside ceramic vessels to show that everyday diets in southern...

Syria’s civil war has been catastrophic for cultural heritage, and new remote-sensing evidence shows how destruction continued long after the...

Silk—often treated as the star of the ancient “Silk Road”—may have started traveling much earlier than historians assumed. New archaeological...

For decades, the weapons found in the tombs of ancient Egyptian princesses have sparked debate: were they mere symbols of...

Precolonial societies in Brazil’s Cerrado—a vast tropical savanna—have long posed a puzzle: did people survive mainly through mobile hunting and...

A new study from Tel Aviv University revisits a long-standing puzzle at the heart of the Dead Sea Scrolls: did...

New genetic research from Stockholm University is rewriting our understanding of medieval burial practices and familial relationships. By analyzing ancient...

A groundbreaking ancient DNA study has unveiled compelling evidence that political power among Scythian elites during the Iron Age was...