Celtic burial chamber, Riedlingen, Germany. RIEDLINGEN, GERMANY—According to a Newsweek report, a 2,600-year-old burial ...

Multiple copies of amylase genes presumably allowed agrarian societies to more efficiently extract energy from a diet high in ...

Wall painting depicting Phaedra and Hippolytus from the House of Phaedra, Pompeii, Italy ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

An underwater archaeologist from Parks Canada clears kelp from the wreck of one of the ships from Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1840s expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage. Both rescuers and ...