Archaeologists recently unveiled an Egyptian vase inside what was once a fast-food kitchen in Pompeii. In a Nov. 6 Facebook post, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said the ceramic situla, or vase, was ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings ...

Seven skeletons found over a decade ago stashed inside a Croatian well didn’t immediately provide any clues toward the site’s ...

On a hilltop in east-central Poland, archaeologists have found an unusual Iron Age tool: an iron scalpel, likely once ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...

A carefully crafted figure of a goose and a woman suggests that art reflecting spiritual beliefs entered a new phase among early villagers in the Middle East.

High up in the icy mountains of Norway, archaeologists have discovered a unique 1,500-year-old reindeer trap, alongside ...

An ancient Celtic coin that was hidden from the world for more than two thousand years was recently plucked from the Earth by ...

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 ...

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An archaeological study has revealed when domestic dogs first began to show the remarkable diversity that characterizes them ...

“Our findings, combined with prior research, indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...