A new study has shattered historians' long-held assumptions about some of the people who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption in ...

In a context marked by water scarcity and collective despair, the mass offering of children sacrificed to the god of rain, ...

Between 1991 and 1995, archaeologists with the Austrian Archaeological Institute working under its then-director Dieter Knibbe excavated along the sacred processional way to the Temple of Artemis ...

When a volcanic eruption buried the ancient city of Pompeii, the last desperate moments of its citizens were preserved for centuries.

Cade DuPont, Shaun Bobbitt, Bethany Terry and Rafael Villaroel — is opening a new window on the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

Researchers has uncovered never before seen details in a set of prehistoric stone objects that feature a variety of artworks.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried the ancient Roman town in ash, leaving behind an entire archaeological site almost perfectly preserved before its rediscovery in 1748. Photo shows ...

it's often been called one of the most photographed streets in America. – Casey Feindt Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park is the site of St. Augustine's original settlement.

Franz Lidz A longtime senior writer at Sports Illustrated and the author of several memoirs, Franz Lidz has written for the New York Times since 1983, on travel, TV, film and theater. He is a ...

A new volume by Ruth Whitehouse (UCL Institute of Archaeology) on epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been published recently. The study of the epigraphy of 1st millennium BCE Italy has a long ...

23 November 2024, 10:00 am–5:00 pm 3.30: Haagen D. Klaus (George Mason University) Lambayeque Valley Biohistory: Reconstructing Life and Death from the Era of Early Social Complexity to the Spanish ...