It is not uncommon this time of year for Americans to hearken back to our colonial history. Students in elementary school ...

Christos Tsirogiannis has made repatriating stolen antiquities his life’s work, he tells BIRN – but it’s often been a ...

George studied Archaeology and Irish Folklore at University College Dublin and Anthropology at the University of Santiago de ...

Researchers propose a stunning new theory for why Neanderthals and humans started to bury their dead at the same time.

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

The Clark Art Institute, MIT, and a historical society all received eight-figure gifts from wealthy donors who immigrated to the U.S. and built their fortunes here.

A recent preliminary study by Ph.D. student Leonie Hoff of the University of Oxford, published in the Oxford Journal of ...

At Olin Memorial Library, a variety of collections—from pottery from the Archaeology & Anthropology Collections to University ...

Celebrities can do harm when they endorse pseudoscience. Seeing a beloved public figure endorse myths magnifies their harm.

At an Iron Age cemetery in Sweden, archaeologists discovered an unusual grave of a woman interred with an iron folding knife ...

Auld-Thomas and his colleagues, who published their findings Monday in the journal Antiquity, call the city Valeriana, after ...

Recent archaeological digs reveal fascinating details about Susquehannock life, uncovering preserved tools and storage pits, ...