A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

His championing of radiocarbon dating and other new scientific approaches demonstrated the untenability of the conventional ...

The beads were identified as amber, something that was not common in Syria during the Iron Age and originated from the Baltic ...

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

The three tombs, which served as a family cemetery, were discovered in the city of Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China, and date ...

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The discovery shed new light on just how advanced the civilisation that lived in the ancient city of Petra was.

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. We know about ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare and substantial Egyptian blue ingot at Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea palace in Rome, ...

Visitors will have a chance to get a close-up look at the project and watch archaeologists on site starting around March.