Archaeology

AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii

Prehistoric artifacts used in jewelry, such as beads made from shells, amber and ivory, have shed light on the cultural groups that were present in Europe tens of thousands of years ago

The ancestral Maya lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water clean naturally. We can learn from them

Traces of an ancient civilization that had a unique urban infrastructure with cities set amid fields have been rediscovered in the Amazon

Researchers have found ancient watering holes that were long ago buried by rising seas. The watering holes may be ones referred to in an Indigenous Australian songline

Burials holding mummies with false heads have been discovered from the Wari Empire in Peru

A chunk of a Mesopotamian palace revealed genes from dozens of ancient plants

These historical forgeries show what makes misinformation so successful

Massive buried structures at Gunung Padang in Indonesia have been described as much older than Egypt’s great pyramids in a new study, but some doubt they’re even human constructions

Egypt’s famous Sphinx may have originated as a rock feature carved by erosion that ancient Egyptians further refined into the iconic monument

A new facial approximation brings to life an Incan girl who was killed 500 years ago as part of a sacrificial ritual

Levels of murder, assault, torture, and the like fluctuated greatly in the ancient world, according to new research