An animal stepped on a mudbrick while it was still soft and left its paw prints in the clay. The brick went into the wall of ...

A Roman soldier found at the bottom of a well in the Netherlands in 1977 was stabbed far more often than anyone knew, according to Leiden University archaeologists. His teeth show he grew up in ...

Excavators at Troy have recovered a bone flute from around 800 BC, which they describe as the first musical instrument found at the site in more than 160 years of digging. The head of a human-shaped ...

Inscription found at the Roman Baths of Fortuna in Spain. Credit: Ayuntamiento de Fortuna A stone block with letters 9 inches tall has been pulled from a wall at a Roman spa in southeastern Spain. It ...

A small village church just outside Lugo, in northwest Spain, has been described for decades as a plain medieval building. A new study argues that it is about 300 years older than that, and that it ...

Bronze is mostly copper with a smaller share of tin, and the copper that prehistoric miners could reach was scattered unevenly across Europe. When researchers ask where the continent’s Bronze Age ...

Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had ever ...

Bronze is mostly copper with a smaller share of tin, and the copper that prehistoric miners could reach was scattered ...

Under the soil and corrosion that coat some of China's most spectacular bronze masks, scraps of cloth have survived for ...

In a drawer at the herbarium of Kew Gardens, in southwest London, there is a dry twig collected in Ghana in 1974. (A ...