Roman military officers kept monkeys as companions and even gave them their own pets - Remains in an ancient cemetery provide first physical proof of live animal trade from India to Roman Egypt ...

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton.

At the edge of the Red Sea, nearly 2,000 years ago, Roman military officers stationed at an Egyptian port were showing off ...

Archaeological science has managed to capture, in microscopic fragments smaller than one millimeter, what time and soil ...

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

The excavation also turned up human remains.

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

It wasn’t supposed to be there.

The approximately 9,000-year-old grave of the shaman from Bad Dürrenberg (Saalekreis district) is one of the most spectacular ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Gravestone slabs, cauldrons and other items recovered from the "Mortar Wreck" are now on display at the newly reopened Poole ...

The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...