Recent excavations in Pompeii reveal that slaves in certain villas were sometimes better nourished than ordinary citizens. Despite their harsh living conditions, the diet provided to maintain their ...

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...

An academic study by the University of Leicester has conclusively determined that the celebrated Roman mosaic discovered in Ketton, Rutland, does not depict scenes from Homer’s Iliad, as initially ...

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.

A team of archaeologists was looking for the ruins of Derrygonnelly Castle in County Fermanagh, Ireland. "They had initially ...

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, revealing instead that they were sophisticated plant food processors who ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

New research reveals early humans ate processed plant foods, challenging long-held beliefs behind the Paleo Diet.

Fragmentary remains of ritual objects placed over the head of the tomb occupant of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) discovered in Qingdao, Shandong province. [Photo provided to China Daily] Pottery ...

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

Recently, Mutin and geochemist Antoine Zazzo of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris led a team that used new methods of radiocarbon dating to analyze tooth enamel from 23 Neolithic people ...