Archaeologists excavating a Spanish stone-and-adobe structure in Arizona uncovered a 480-year-old gun. Experts believe the ...

New research along Turkey’s Ayvalık coast reveals a once-submerged land bridge that may have helped early humans cross from ...

This spooky skeleton was likely made to remind Roman banqueters that life is short. This small, bronze skeleton is one of ...

Complexity science can help archaeologists understand how the everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the large-scale patterns we excavate today. In her new book, Thinking Through ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remnants of a historic royal palace from a Polish river, shedding light on a violent ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now ...

The engravings are traced to show 19 life-sized camels and 3 equids. Naturalistic animals belonging to the middle phase are ...

On this day in science history Sept. 17, 1999: Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver ...

Archaelogy-related news releases hosted on the news release distribution platform EurekAlert! are 4 times more likely to ...

Today’s state of extreme economic inequality is a problem best approached with science — using it to make specific measurements, identify root causes, and develop workable solutions. Archaeology is ...

For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...

Learn about the excavation process of archaeology as Dr. Peter V. Lape and his team dig up the past. Archaeology is the study of human behavior based on the evidence of artifacts excavated from the ...