The conquests of Genghis Khan are traditionally associated with horrifying brutality, but this reputation has overshadowed another side to the empire that…
Ongoing excavations at Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in America, have revealed grisly evidence that within months of establishing the…
Excavations in Switzerland have revealed the first intact Neolithic burial chamber north of the Alps. The dolmen, at Oberbipp in the Canton…
Analysis of some of the world’s earliest pots has revealed that Ice Age hunter-gatherers enjoyed a fish supper. An international team of…
New research on the remains of ‘Oetzi’, the world’s oldest wet mummy, has revealed that his violent death was not the only…
Environmental workers have made an unexpected discovery while preparing a building on the site of Hanford’s Cold War-era nuclear reactor in Washington…
First settled in the late 6th millennium BC, between 3600-2500 BC the Maltese archipelago flourished into an astonishingly rich prehistoric culture, producing…
Given the importance that the Ancient Egyptians placed on entering the afterlife intact, it is unsurprising that replacement body parts have been…
Archaeological work ahead of the construction of an events garden at Hamei Yoav, Israel, has uncovered an unusual church-shaped lantern, as well…
The dig Rather than one major campaign of excavation, it was the results from a series of interventions over almost half a…
Just outside the fortified walls of Mdina, once the capital of Malta, are the remains of a fine example of a Roman…
Rome is empty of tourists in late January; Umbria is even emptier, yet on most days there is sunshine for nine hours.…
Non Ban Jak will soon be slumbering again in the heat of the dry season here in Northeast Thailand. The huge mound…