To an untrained eye, the artefact looks brown and dull, but it is actually something very special: embroidered wool fabric more than 1000 years old, preserved on top of a turtle brooch
Torrential rains in Barranco León allowed the first hominins to opportunistically take advantage of an accumulation of raw materials
The British have suffered for their fashion for centuries according to a new study suggesting that a vogue for shoes with a pointed tip led to a sharp increase in hallux valgus of the big toe in the late medieval period
Organic residue indicates a diverse and varied culinary culture across Sicily
The University of North Florida archaeology team is now fairly confident they have located the lost Indigenous northeast Florida community of Sarabay
A new group moved into East Asia about 19,000 years ago
Ancient chickens lived significantly longer than their modern equivalents because they were seen as sacred—not food—archaeologists have found
“Ornaments composed of elk teeth suspended from or sown on to clothing emit a loud rattling noise when moving,” says auditory archaeologist and Academy of Finland Research Fellow Riitta Rainio from the University of Helsinki
Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention
Archaeologists conducting excavations in Old Dongola (Sudan), have discovered the remains of a large church from medieval Nubia, that could have been a cathedral and seat of an archbishop
Archaeologists working in the district of Tübingen in southwest Germany have discovered the region’s earliest gold object to date
A new approach to understand the functional and symbolic uses of the place
