There are places you visit for photographs. There are places you visit for food. And then there are places you visit because they change how you see yourself in the long story of humanity. Theopetra ...

The research team examined dozens of intact vessels and hundreds of diagnostic sherds, and backed up the use-wear observations with experimental reconstructions, showing that wax-filled replicas can ...

In November 1943, a lost American P-47 Thunderbolt landed on a German airfield by mistake. Luftwaffe engineers seized the aircraft and subjected it to exhaustive testing at their top evaluation center ...

Oklahoma City residents have struck that gold with Uptown Cheapskate, a consignment shop that defies all the dusty, disorganized stereotypes you might associate with pre-loved clothing stores. The ...

Medieval Christian burials in Denmark were likely more influenced by money than supposed outward markers of sin, according to new research.

The Vikings are invading York once more while the Dark Skies Festival is full of stars in Charles Hutchinson’s tips for half-term adventure ...

The research, published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, analyzed 939 adult skeletons from five medieval cemeteries in Denmark, dating from approximately 1050 to 1536 AD. The findings ...

Digital tools allow archaeologists to identify similarities between fragments and artifacts and potentially recover previously unknown parts of their stories.

The Thwaites Glacier sits on the edge of the continental landmass of West Antarctica in an unclaimed region known as Marie ...

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

In medieval Denmark, death could double as a display of status. The closer your grave lay to a church wall or inside a ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an incredibly well-preserved Zapotec tomb dating back to the early seventh century. The tomb boasts intricately carved walls, murals and sculptures—including a ...