Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Experts are returning to Syria’s war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving tourism. They say that could provide a much-needed boost to the country’s ...

In north-west Syria, more than 700 abandoned Byzantine settlements called Dead Cities, stretch across rocky hills and plains, their weathered limestone ruins featuring remnants of stone houses, ...

Modules examine themes such as ancient environments ... China, Egypt, Italy, Russia, the Americas, amongst others – and will demonstrate how key archaeological discoveries have played a contribution ...

In the past 30 years, they’ve been helped in these studies by digital tools like geographic information systems (GIS). GIS is a computer system that uses software and data to map, analyse and manage ...

Italian archaeologists have uncovered a complex, ancient necropolis that may shed new light on the elite members of an ...

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Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

They were found strategically placed within the postholes of two ancient houses at Losning Sondermark. When researchers from the Cultural Museum in Vejle, Denmark, first found two iron plates ...

The unearthing of the long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years. Thutmose II's mummy was ...