The papyrus revealed how the imperial state dealt with financial crimes - specifically tax fraud involving slaves - in Judaea ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Archaeologists have made a stunning breakthrough after discovering an 11th Centry medieval toilet that has helped to unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery. Researchers from the University of Exeter and the ...

The three tombs, which served as a family cemetery, were discovered in the city of Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China, and date ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

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

Belatedly, the survivors were rescued from obscurity and the human element of the tragedy came to the fore. Local and then ...

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

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare and substantial Egyptian blue ingot at Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea palace in Rome, ...

Visitors will have a chance to get a close-up look at the project and watch archaeologists on site starting around March.