Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what they see? The frequent absence of scent (not counting the musty tang of many ...

Archaeologists digging at Gotthardtkirchplatz discover a treasure hoard of silver, hidden 400 years ago during the Thirty ...

Archaeologists reveal that a new digital atlas shows Roman road network was 50% larger than known, mapping 186,000 miles ...

Models help scientists understand everything from the particles that make up the universe to massive superstructures of galaxies at the beginning of time. But sometimes they model more mundane, though ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

Elon Musk donated $1 million through the Musk Foundation to support digital archaeological research into ancient Rome — a ...

George Washington University archaeologist David Braun and his colleagues recently unearthed stone tools from a 2.75 ...

Archaeologists have made a number of historic discoveries while excavating the ancient Greek City of Laodicea, which housed a ...

New study debunks the “plague of Akhetaten." They found orderly burials and stable demographics pointing to a crisis, not a ...