Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written numbers.

Archaeologists often focus on what skeletal remains can tell about how and when ancient peoples died. But an individual’s ...

Teeth provide a wealth of information about the lives of Iron Age Italians, according to a study published in the open-access ...

Divers plunging into Mexico's submerged Sac Actun cave system in 2007 stumbled upon a hidden world of Ice Age fossils, ...

Imagine stumbling upon an object so strange, so impossible to explain, that it throws everything you thought you knew about ...

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...

CQUniversity Australia provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have lasted for thousands of years. The discovery points to a special ...

Archaeologists excavating a Pompeii site uncovered the secret behind the longevity of ancient Roman structures: a unique concrete mixture that could chemically repair itself over time. A recent study, ...

Season’s greetings from The Debrief… this week in our top stories, researchers have unveiled a novel “cloaking device” that can shield complex objects from detection using real-world materials.

Archaeologists have revealed that a Roman-era mosaic discovered in Britain in 2020 has long been misinterpreted, depicting a lost version of the Trojan War rather than the Iliad, as initially believed ...

An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...