The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our understanding of the New World, raising the possibility that Italians arrived in the Americas long before Christopher ...

Work on the sewage system in Wijk bij Duurstede in Utrecht province has turned up rare remnants of what may be a Viking ship ...

Virudhunagar: Students of the panchayat union middle school at Muthaneri in Virudhunagar district have unearthed artefacts like pottery shards and sto.

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over 2,000 years ago—something for which ...

Yet beneath the marble panels and mosaic floors lay a far harsher reality. Roman public latrines were dim, crowded environments where men and women likely sat side by side, using a shared sea sponge ...

Archaeological excavations that uncovered the remains of a "vile" medieval dungeon under Leicester's market place have been completed. A team from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services ...

A friend inherited some sturdy family plates that were, she said, the “50 shades of brown” that feel familiar after a week’s Norovirus. These unloved products of the Denby pottery ended up in the ...

Researchers looking at foodcrusts on the pottery shards of ancient humans say there's evidence of a wide variety of ingredients, indicating that they may have been experimenting with "recipes." ...

Husband & wife Matt & Melissa Dunphy are part of a small group digging up centuries-old Philadelphia outhouses to uncover ...

Hunter-gatherers in Europe carefully selected ingredients and cooked complex foods, often pairing fish with specific plants, ...

In Philadelphia, there are a small group of about 15 “privy pirates,” amateur archaeologists who dig beneath 300-year-old outhouses to unearth treasures the owners threw away three ...

History is usually written by the winners. But a haul of ceramics from the Singapore Strait is rewriting that history.