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The second-century Roman ruins at the city of Allianoi once stood tall under the blue Turkish sky, as seen in a file photo. But like the res...

The ancient city of Germenicia, which has been underground for 1,500 years, is being unearthed thanks to mosaics found during an illegal exc...

A team of experts hope to shed new light on one of Nottinghamshire's most mysterious ancient monuments. A 'Thing', or open-air m...

Archeologists in Germany have discovered a 2,600-year-old Celtic tomb containing ornate jewellery of gold and amber. They say the grave is u...

Stuttgart - Scientists have discovered a 2,600 year-old aristocratic burial, likely of a Celtic noblewoman, at the hill fort site of Heunebu...

Scientists have upgraded their opinion of Neanderthal cuisine after spotting traces of cooked food on the fossilised teeth of our long-extin...

It just goes to show what can happen if you don't brush your teeth: some anthropologist can tip up thousands of years later and start ma...

Israeli archaeologists claim that they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man. A Tel Aviv University team ...

Long before the land was called Israel and the residents Jews, Homo sapiens lived here twice as long ago as was previously believed, the res...

The study of human remains can tell us a great deal about a society; status, wealth, religion and others. When an archaeologist studies one ...

It is now thirty years since clerics, who live on the island [Thule] from the first of February to the first of August, told me that not onl...

A team of scientists are currently examining specimens of stomach bacteria from Ötzi the Iceman, who lived about 5,300 years ago, at Stockho...

DNA taken from a pinkie bone at least 30,000 years old is hinting at the existence of a previously unknown population of ancient humans. It...

Das Genom eines ausgestorbenen Urmenschen liefert neue Erkenntnisse über die Ursprünge des modernen Menschen Ein internationales Forschertea...

The latest archaeological findings unearthed in Greece over the past year are in the top 10 discoveries of 2010 list, published in the lates...

Αrchaeological finds were located during maintenance works on the electric train (ISAP) line tracks in the eponymous Thission district of ce...

Despite the weather, it’s expected that like last year, crowds will gather to witness the winter solstice light ceremony on December 21. Las...

ARCHAEOLOGY studies at the potential site of a new wind farm have started. Wind Prospect Developments Ltd, the company behind plans to build...

Nine people are under investigation for two collapses in the famous ancient Roman city of Pompeii that shocked the culture world last month,...