The doomed voyage of a seventeenth-century merchant ship ended in mutiny and mayhem

Researchers are using new scientific methods to investigate how artists in Roman Egypt customized portraits for the dead

It's not what "Indiana Jones" would lead you to believe.

Researchers' number-one fear from Syria to Afghanistan is not war or terrorism but the coming shifts in nature itself

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Twenty-five years ago, a cargo of millions of pieces of Lego was washed overboard during a storm off Land's End. To this day, tiny pieces of plastic are still being found on Cornish beaches. Joe Flatman reports on a project working to document these finds. On a bright and breezy morning earlier this year, I found myself looking out across the wide expanse of sand that, at low tide, forms Porth Beach in Newquay,…

The light management of forests in Normandy since WWII helped preserve the remains of German supply depots and other artifacts of war hidden in the woodlands.

While on road trips I notice sometimes there are places where a road will deviate from the path I expect it to take. I take a note of it an...

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A relatively new realm of archaeology uses technology to take the discipline out of the dirt and into the skies.

A contemporary archeology project studying the remains of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 reveals the human face—literally—of the conflict.

The set of anomalous tokens which we found in mid-January are now being described as 'glitch tokens' in online discussion, as well as (perhaps more playfully) 'forbidden tokens', 'unspeakable tokens'…

What happens when someone's personal project is turned into a startup which becomes something of a publicity darling, then collapses with very little product shipped and takes all its customers' money...

We can often tell what ancient peoples ate by studying the evidence of raw ingredients they left behind. But there's no fossil record for flavor — so how can we learn how a long-ago lunch may have tasted?

3D scanners, 3D printers and even new smartphone technology is being used by University of Aberdeen archaeologists to enhance teaching and public engagement of the discipline.

Well-researched stories from Ars Technica, Psyche, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

A married pair of researchers have "set the record straight" on the ancient history of smooching.

Uncovering the past of historically under-represented communities sometimes means having to do a little digging, through newspapers, archives and even the ground.

By Dr Richard Nevell, Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK I'm a big fan of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS). Its online library is … Continue reading "The Archaeology Data Service and Wikidata"

A Black cowboy named George McJunkin, who died 100 years ago, found a site that would transform scientific views about the deep history of Native Americans in North America.