Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring ...

Undergraduates in a Harvard anthropology course have begun excavating Harvard Yard, the area between Harvard Hall and Holden Chapel, for the twentieth year of the Harvard Yard Archaeology Project.

The one-day event, led by Aproxima in collaboration with Professor Stephen Driscoll of Glasgow University and archaeologist David Sneddon of Clyde Archaeology, provided the public with a rare ...

In September 1968, the tracks were removed but then everything was left to rot until final clearance of the entire area in 1971.

When his lecture ended, I turned to my friend beside me and whispered, ” I need to give that pot back.” My brother still ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Archaeology here is not treasure hunting. It is slow, careful work. It is listening to stones that speak in small details. Think of a dig like a layered cake… You slice it one layer at a time. If you ...

Recently, for the first time in living memory, the cathedral’s ancient well was excavated by Aproxima, working with Professor Stephen Driscoll, leading archaeologist at Glasgow University and his long ...

One of the vessels, “Poem Jar,” features hints of Drake’s financial exploitation and forced separation from a woman believed ...

We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of ...

The identity of a long-forgotten Maya ruler has been revealed after the discovery of ancient hieroglyphics in Mexico. Ix ...

Ix Ch'ak Ch'een joins a distinguished roster of known Maya queens including Yohl Ik'nal of Palenque, who ruled in the late 6th century, and Lady K'abel of El Peru-Waka', who held the title of kaloomte ...