Archaeology is no longer limited to traditional excavation. Today, new technologies are transforming how we explore and ...

A new study challenges widespread notions about khipus, intricate cord and knot information-recording systems, based on Spanish colonial-era sources. Reading time 2 minutes The Inca were a ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Ancient Native Americans probably used makeshift “transport technology” to drag their possessions from place to place more than 20,000 years ago, a new study finds — and the evidence of the technology ...

Recent breakthroughs in archaeology, from advanced CT scans of 2,300-year-old mummies to the decoding of the oldest Egyptian genome, are transforming our understanding of ancient Egypt. Discoveries ...