Study of tooth enamel reveals that the Sumerians did not eat fish despite living by the sea, challenging what we thought ...

A thousand-year-old Viking ship, the only taxidermied blue whale in the world, and a 1,087-page manuscript with each page ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur rose above one of Mesopotamia’s most powerful cities, a major center of trade, religion, and royal authority founded around 5,800 years ago in southern Iraq. Built for the ...

Archaeology is the discipline that keeps on giving. We might think that we know enough about history already, but every now ...