The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

It’s not just for ChatGPT. Archaeologists have increasingly been finding new ways to deploy artificial intelligence in their search for buried truths—especially in terrain inhospitable to human ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

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For most people, the image that comes to mind at the mention of archaeology is ancient tombs or dinosaur fossils, not cutting-edge tech. However, in order to unearth such things or make sense of ...

Some vacations take you to destinations that feel futuristic, while archeological tourism transports you to a completely different era in the past. Whether you’re excavating the prehistoric species of ...