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

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

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 ...

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity's transition from hunter-gatherers to ...

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

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 ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, ...

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally. Each fascinating find brings ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...

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