Mapping archaeological digs used to take plenty of time and a lot of measuring, photographing, drawing and note taking, much of which can now be done with a technique called photogrammetry.…

A detailed analysis of the remains of a high-status Danish Bronze Age female, known as the Egtved Girl, has revealed information about her movements, what she ate, and where her clothes came from.…

Scientists have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The tools, whose makers may or may not…

It's a First World Idyll that ancient indigenous people sustained themselves using nature's bounty, in harmony with the land. Science knows otherwise. Instead, from Alaska to Washington,…

In the most famous versions of Richard III, written by William Shakespeare, the last Plantagenet king was physically and mentally deformed.  But the public probably did not know what, and if…

We tend to think society is more sexualized today but perhaps it's only now that the common people are getting it on the way elites once did. In the Eilat Mountain region around Nahal Roded in Israel…

In 1722, when Europeans arrived on Easter Island, nearly 2,300 miles off the west coast of Chile, the native Polynesian culture known as Rapa Nui were already in a demographic tailspin from which…

By: Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science -- Archaeologists, digging into George Washington’s headquarters at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, have added domestic images to the picture of one of the most…

Rock soil droplets formed by heating are part of the evidence used to content that a disastrous cosmic impact 12,900 years ago triggered the Younger Dryas cold period but they most likely instead…

The village of Nichoria in Messenia was located near the palace of Pylos during the Greek Bronze Age, when Greece was considered a Superpower of the Mediterranean. The region thrived on its trade and…