archaeology

Dayton has hired a national consulting firm that city officials say specializes in cultural and historic preservation to conduct testing at the site of...

Until now, the only Denisovan remains came from a cave in Siberia. The new find is "much more complete," one expert says.

The fire at Notre Dame this month shook the Western world, with billionaires pledging millions of dollars towards its restoration. The 13th century…

Analysis of fossilized dental tartar of a medieval woman buried in a German monastery reveals specks of blue to be lapis lazuli — a luxurious pigment used to create gorgeous illuminated manuscripts.

Bret Ruby trudges up a slight rise at the Hopeton Earthworks, one of six sites that make up the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Ruby serves as…

As humans spread around the globe, other big mammals vanished. Researchers believe it's because they were tasty.

A discovery of the remains of two infants in central Alaska provides evidence of the earliest wave of people to move from Asia into the Americas.

Farmers in Peru's Andean highlands have been consuming clay for centuries. Scientists now think it may have allowed them to eat wild potatoes, which are rich in toxic chemicals.

Researchers used equipment that detects muons. Measuring the density of the tiny particles yielded an image of what's behind the pyramid walls with no damage to the ancient structure.

These 160-million-year-old fossils are the oldest known examples of mammal relatives with the ability to glide. They're from an extinct lineage with no relationship to modern gliders.