Researchers have uncovered a remarkable find with the help of advanced AI that could challenge longstanding beliefs about ...

How a detectorist’s unearthed Roman swords helped find Iron Age settlement - Two Roman cavalry swords found by a metal ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

DNA from a Roman salting site in Spain reveals sardines were the key fish used in garum, the famous sauce rooted in Greek and ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

A new exhibition in London (open until February 2026) called Thirst: In search of freshwater highlights how civilizations ...