Archaeologists from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and elsewhere have found traces of indigotin -- a blue secondary ...

New research introduces a paleoenvironmental model in which tidal dynamics influenced the earliest development of agriculture ...

“The geometry and optical properties of the environment has profound consequences for how photons are emitted, including defining the photons shape, color, and even how likely it is to exist,” said ...

Paleoanthropologists from the University of Vienna and Harvard University have analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from Eurasian archaeological sites dating between 6400-2000 BCE. They’ve ...

The poorly understood ‘matalafi’ — the homogenate of Psychotria insularum leaves (fresh leaf juice) — is widely used in Samoan traditional medicine to treat inflammation associated with fever, body ...

An international team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists has found ancient human and animal footprints on the surface of an ancient lakebed in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. The footprints, ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a frescoed thermopolium (a hot-food-drink shop) in Pompeii, an ancient Roman city frozen in time after the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. “Thermopolia, ...

Archaeologists in Bolivia have discovered an ancient complex roughly 215 km (130 miles) south-east of Tiwanaku’s historical site, where a large, modular building with an integrated, sunken courtyard ...