Archaeology

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

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time

This newly discovered Iron Age instrument may have been played in the Celtic resistance against the Roman Empire

The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known

Romans living in ancient Britain were plagued by intestinal parasites, all of which are spread by fecal contamination