Archaeology

Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could be skilled beast hunters

A massive digitization project has nearly doubled the known extent of the first continent-scale road network

Scientists long assumed Venus’s harsh environment would quickly destroy artifacts from probe missions. But a new study makes a compelling case to the contrary

The latest studies bring the number of remains identified from this doomed 1845 expedition to six of the 129 who set out to the Arctic

Archaeologists have uncovered around 3,000 silver coins so far—and more could come to light

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the empire’s fall

Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a polybolos

A metagenomic study of this cloth, controversially purported to bear the imprint of the body of Jesus Christ, has little to say about the relic’s origins

A new archeological finding shows that Native Americans were exploring probability through games of chance far earlier than their Old World counterparts

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence suggests