Archaeology

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installation from artist Jeff Koons is inadvertently putting this question to the test

Astronomical simulations and ancient Egyptian texts show the Milky Way was linked to the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut. This fits within multicultural myths about our home galaxy

A rare Islamic astrolabe discovered in Verona, Italy, reveals how the instrument passed through different countries and cultures

Genetic information from ancient Roman remains is helping to reveal how malaria has moved and evolved alongside people

A newly examined munch mark on a tibia has become a real Pleistocene whodunit.

Vittrup Man, who was bludgeoned to death in a Danish bog, was a Scandinavian wanderer, according to new research

Scientists are finding ever-earlier examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the abilities of Neanderthals and other archaic humans

Archaeologists have discovered what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure, submerged below the Baltic Sea and dubbed the Blinkerwall

AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii

Prehistoric artifacts used in jewelry, such as beads made from shells, amber and ivory, have shed light on the cultural groups that were present in Europe tens of thousands of years ago

The ancestral Maya lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water clean naturally. We can learn from them

Traces of an ancient civilization that had a unique urban infrastructure with cities set amid fields have been rediscovered in the Amazon