Philly’s oldest continuously operating tavern is decked out in Christmas decor for the season and has launched its festive ...

Archaeologists in Beijing announced important discoveries in the recent excavation of the Jiankou section of the Great Wall, where a large cannon has been unearthed. The excavation focused on three ...

For most people, the image that comes to mind at the mention of archaeology is ancient tombs or dinosaur fossils, not cutting ...

A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of ...

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

At the 3rd BB Lal Memorial Lecture at IIC last week, speakers connected the late archaeologist's ideas to a govt initiative ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

I t’s time to say hello to an old friend again. The first near-Earth asteroid ever discovered by humans, 433 Eros, will have a close fly-by of Earth this weekend, and it should stay visible for a few ...

While you may believe that it's hard to learn anything new about a structure that has been around for thousands of years, ...