The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

A question about 19th-century ceramics can only turn into an hour-long rabbit hole on the sacredness of motherhood as ...

Jessica Munson, Ph.D., worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to analyze house size distributions with findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

This painted penguin pot is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was made about 1,600 years ago and was collected in Peru in the late 19th century. The multicolored ceramic vessel is ...

On the hillside of a Colorado valley ringed by bygone gold mines, a team of archaeologists-in-training wielding paintbrushes ...

The book will examine the archeology and anthropology burial practices of societies around the world and the unique and creative things people do with dead bodies.

Students from Bridgewater State University are helping stewards envision James and Sarah Arnold Mansion's future by looking ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

Reports of looting led archaeologists to explore an easily overlooked cave in northern Mexico. Eventually, the team found ...

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