For decades, the sticky black tar that Neanderthals cooked out of birch bark has been filed away in the archaeological literature as prehistoric glue. A new round of laboratory experiments suggests ...

Halloween has a ready-made origin story. Long before children dressed as vampires and superheroes, the Celts supposedly gathered around fires on a night called Samhain. It was then, when the boundary ...

More than 1,000 ancient bone dice have been lifted from the soil beside a single small building in northeastern France, an accumulation so extreme that archaeologists are still arguing over what it ...

Historia Mathematica, 2026) Kelly examined ten Greek papyri carrying geometry problems, dating from the first to the fourth ...

Most of the wood is firewood, including branches and trunks up to 7.2 meters long. Two spears came from Level R: one is 2.45 ...

A metal detectorist who recovered one of Scotland's most important Bronze Age treasures has struck again, lifting a second ...

And then success can create room to build, provide, repair, and serve. The Stoics knew this. They were not naïve about the uses of wealth or the consequences of rank. Yet today, Stoicism is often ...

A young horseman buried more than 2,000 years ago in southern Russia went to his grave with weapons, his horse and a gold ...

A man who died in the Ecuadorian Andes more than 3,000 years ago has a face again. An international team has completed a ...