Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

The remains of the deceased found in the burials may be more than 2,000 years old, according to archaeologists.

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Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic graves and a children’s necropolis dating back over 2,000 years.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old royal house used by a prominent pharaoh in northeast Egypt.

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

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

Queen's University Belfast is one of the best places to study Archaeology in the UK, scoring third place for student experience in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022 and, once again ...

Among these are the Covesea Caves – near Inverness – which contain some of the most enigmatic archaeological sites ... community—evidence of ancient mummification practices in Britain.

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 ...

Hadar Ahituv's doctoral thesis at Bar-Ilan University's Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology. He is now at the Laboratory for Ancient Food Processing Technologies ...

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the Peruvian coast between roughly 900 and 1500 C.E. On This Day in History ...