While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...

Christian archaeology does not simply look at the past, he wrote, but it also speaks to all people in the present day.

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

From ancient cities buried beneath the sands to mummies revealing new secrets, 2021 brought a wave of remarkable ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

In a new Apostolic Letter commemorating the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took ...

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