The remarkable discoveries include the best-preserved early image of Jesus discovered near the Turkish city of Iznik ...

Today’s cities are hotbeds of inequality. Urban real estate is one of the most expensive kinds of land in the world. It ...

Modern plaster cast of the collocatio relief from the Tomb of the Haterii, Rome, taken from a cast in the Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome. The original relief is now in the Musei Vaticani, Museo ...

Archaeological science integrates laboratory-based analyses, field-survey techniques and computational methods to recover, characterise and interpret traces of past human activity. Drawing on physics, ...

Radiocarbon dating remains the cornerstone of chronological frameworks in archaeology, exploiting the decay of carbon-14 in organic remains to establish absolute ages. Since its inception in the ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...

A 2,200-year-old bone unearthed in Spain may be from one of Hannibal's war elephants that was deployed during the Second Punic War, a new study reports. The baseball-size bone, found near the southern ...

Introduction -- Science, art and archaeology -- Scientific study of archaeological materials during the Chinese Song Dynasty : a Shen Kua case study -- The role of science in western Chinese jade ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science" reporting reveals topical and regional disparities, including an apparent ...

Archaeologist still depend upon tools used for hundreds of years, but some are taking advantage of what technology offers. Things like ground penetrating radar, microscopes, even satellites. Learn ...

All eyes were on a commission of professional archaeologists when they visited Glozel. Agence Meurisse/BnF Gallica In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured ...