Founded in 300 B.C., Antioch was one of the most important political and cultural centers of the Hellenistic East and one of the great metropolises of the Roman Empire. In the 1930s, Princeton ...

The event, titled “Prospects for Applying Modern Sciences and Technologies in Salvage Archaeological Excavations of Water and Energy Infrastructure Projects,” took place at the headquarters of the ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and ...

A recent study offers proof of feasibility for using cosmic radiation detectors to discover underground spaces. The detectors identify muons—particles created when cosmic radiation collides with Earth ...

How does climate change affect the way humans organize themselves? How has it shaped the course of human evolution? An international team of scientists, including scientists from the Université de ...

The Penn Museum has partnered with the Barnes Foundation, a Philadelphia art institute, to license a virtual platform for examining artifacts as part of the museum’s online archeology program this ...

Archeology, as a discipline, has long been the bridge between the past and present. However, as we advance further into the 21st Century, the tools we use to engage with history are evolving. One of ...

In a recent post, I discussed the interesting response to the idea that information has taken on the characteristics of common-law property: “That would be a bad idea.” Saying so has incongruence akin ...

Some of this year’s fascinating archaeological discoveries in Egypt have not been entirely new, never-before-seen art and artifacts. While some certainly are, others are actually new revelations about ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity known as smelting. This monumental shift gave them a powerful new technology ...