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

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

Wessex Archaeology has published the full results of nearly two decades of excavations carried out during the search for a suitable site for ...

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 ...

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

A massive 40-year study in the US has concluded that adding fluoride to drinking water does not reduce people's cognitive ...

Researchers in Japan discovered a pottery vessel over 10,000 years old in Lake Biwako, the oldest artifact found at the ...

A mural in the home of Lucas Asicona in the small Guatemalan city of Chajul depicts a dwarf carrying a long stick, two musicians, and a dancer wearing a mix of Spanish and Maya attire. Part of the ...

Thousands of shipwrecks lie in the 4,080 square miles of the Bay and its feeder waters. The archaeologists, divers, and other ...

Wessex Archaeology has published the full results of nearly two decades of excavations carried out during the search for a suitable site for the Stonehenge visitor centre.

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...