For generations, the massive moai of Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by the locals, have stood in quiet testimony to one of ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on ...

Complexity science can help archaeologists understand how the everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the large-scale patterns we excavate today. In her new book, Thinking Through ...

The dissemination activities by the Mida Foundation, led by President Rosaria Carfagna, continue. Here is the new School-Work ...

The cult site dedicated to a goddess of the Phrygian religion was further west than any previous evidence of the religion’s ...

On this day in science history Sept. 17, 1999: Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver ...

Archaeological Science, often interchangeably termed archaeometry, represents an inherently interdisciplinary field that blends methods drawn from the physical, chemical, biological, and social ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science" reporting reveals topical and regional disparities, including an apparent ...

Visigoth women may have worn eagle-shaped pins as a symbol of power. These two eagle-shaped pins were discovered in central ...

The story begins at Kvemo Bolnisi, a smelting workshop perched on a hillside in the Caucasus. Soviet archaeologists first dug ...

The University of Aberdeen student was working on a dig in Scotland when she found the relic that could be a rare discovery ...

Author Sam Kean writes about how experimental archaeology engages the senses and offers an intimate look into ancient history ...