A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

A child, hiker, or canoeist who picks up a single arrowhead is far more likely to encounter a teachable moment than criminal ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia.

To make relics like the emblem tangible again, Zhao has tried to transform intangible cultural heritage into calculable, composable and living "cultural genes", a concept she first raised in her PhD ...

The tomb of Usermaatre Setepenamun Osorkon II was uncovered in northern Egypt, at the archaeological site of Tanis, in 1939. It was pretty standard for an all-services provided, luxurious commute ...

Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most significant discoveries ...

The once-thriving city of Pompeii, near Naples, was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, preserving buildings, ...

Long before satellites and sonar, entire cities vanished beneath water—some swallowed by earthquakes, others ...

Across the world’s continental shelves, archaeologists are racing a rising tide of development and climate change to map and ...

The first Homo sapiens to arrive in the Americas may have originated in a region covering today’s Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the ...