A La Tène bronze helmet found at Łysa Góra in Poland points to southern visitors and a key stop on the Iron Age Amber Route.

Historical records show harsh winters, floods and famine struck 17th century Transylvania during the Little Ice Age and ...

A student found an intact 6-inch Lehigh/Koens-Crispin spear point, up to 4,500 years old, in a tidal inlet on a Virginia ...

Charcoal from a Spanish rock shelter shows how Neanderthals used fire, gathered wood and managed waste around their hearths.

Archaeologists in Pompeii opened a wardrobe sealed since 79 CE, revealing a woman's keepsakes, 38 coins, and a childhood ...

A Celtic woman who died more than 2,000 years ago was laid to rest with a meal beside her. Archaeologists in southern Germany found the remains of a lamb or kid goat in her grave. They also recovered ...

UV fluorescence reveals a natural calcite varnish protecting 37,000-year-old Chauvet Cave paintings, without touching the fragile art.

Radiocarbon dates and lead isotope tests at Las Minillas in Spain link a Late Bronze Age copper mine to bronzes found in ...

Fifteen cuneiform tablets from the Iraq Museum record farming, irrigation, land, grain, and labor during the Ur III period. Tablet ...