Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...

FRENCH marine archaeologists have uncovered a colossal Stone Age wall off the coast of Brittany – and they believe it could ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Based on a comprehensive study, researchers are now convinced the shafts were human-made, likely dug during the Late ...

The relationship between archaeology and espionage is close. During the twentieth century, for example, both Britain and the United States recruited archaeologists working in some of the world’s most ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remnants of an ancient pleasure boat that may have once served the Egyptian elites. The ...

In 1936, Emma and Max Hahn stumbled upon a strange stone nodule along a creek in London, Texas. Embedded in it was a wooden ...