"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

His championing of radiocarbon dating and other new scientific approaches demonstrated the untenability of the conventional ...

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Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

Lead contamination lead remained fairly low and localized in ancient Greece throughout the Bronze Age, the Classical period ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the ...

Learn why the use of a tiny spoon likely suggests that Germanic communities used psychotropic drugs for battle.

The people generally referred to as Negritos were once widely dispersed across South-East Asia. Today, they are found in the ...

“The idea with video games is they’re supposed to be this warm bath of immersion that you disappear into,” said Gareth Damian Martin, whose new game Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector subverts ...

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to cra ...