Almost 2,000 years after Mount Vesuvius exploded, scholars continue to uncover extraordinary archaeological remains immortalized in ash...
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A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual unwrapping.
A newly transcribed book about cheese from the 1580s offers advice on everything from when to eat...
Scientists found a mummy’s abdomen filled with wood and fabric—but it’s how they got in there that’s...
The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru...
The 3,300-year-old monument has sat in the French capital’s center for almost 200 years, but no one...
Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded...
NOAA is asking for the public’s help in identifying the car, which went down with the USS...
A construction project in Stuttgart, Germany, resulted in the discovery of the ancient site.
Archaeological records indicate that prehistoric people in Europe relied on fire throughout the Ice Age—but the evidence...
