Browsing: Archaeology

What’s the first thing you notice when you step into a museum? Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or…

Nature, Published online: 10 October 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03245-8Laser plasma device could be light enough to be used on the field.

There is a stubborn and widely held idea that in some earlier phase of our species’ existence, women had equal status to men, or even ruled,…

These days, revellers converge on the West Country from all parts of the UK and beyond to take part in the wonderful craziness of the Glastonbury…

The game I’m most looking forward to right now is Big Walk, the latest title from House House, creators of the brilliant Untitled Goose Game. A…

“When it comes to human stuff, I’ll take anything, pretty much,” says Henry Scragg. “As long as it’s been ethically sourced, may I add.”Speaking from his…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Experimental archaeology takes a hands-on approach to understanding the past. Instead of just studying ancient objects researchers…

Archaeologists have discovered new evidence pointing to the reoccupation of Pompeii after the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius that left the city in ruins.Despite the massive…

The English warship HMS Northumberland was built in 1679 as part of a wave of naval modernisation overseen by Samuel Pepys, a decade after he had…

It began with an extraordinary piece of fortune: a metal detectorist on only his second expedition coming upon two very rare cavalry swords on the brink…