Strontium isotope analysis can be applied to animal and plant tissues to help determine their provenance. Here, the authors generate a strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa using data from 2266 ...

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people simply yearning for the promise of spring marked the dawn of the shortest day of the year Saturday at the ancient Stonehenge ...

But the silver amulet caught the archaeologists' attention. Experts at the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA) in Mainz spent several years conserving, restoring and analyzing the amulet before ...

And yes, the amounts are small, but – full confession – when I reached number seven, I had met my Waterloo and was unable to eat another crumb of food. That’s how filling seven small courses ...

A breakthrough came in May, 2024, though when experts examined the artifact using a state-of-the-art CT scanner at the Leibniz Center for Archaeology in Mainz (LEIZA). A CT scanner is an imaging ...

The University of Waterloo says twin sisters, who were set to start their PhD studies at the school, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Dec. 5. Dalia Ghazi Ibaid and Sally Ghazi Ibaid ...

“This applies to archaeology as well as to religious studies, philology, and anthropology. Such a significant find here in Frankfurt is truly something extraordinary.” The amulet was found in ...

Grisly details about ancient child sacrifices, a map of a lost city in the Amazon and the answer to a Stonehenge mystery are some of this year’s insights into human history. Discovering a human ...

The latest discovery was particularly significant as previous finds of pottery fragments in the region could not definitively prove Roman settlement, as they might have been discarded by travellers ...

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Helena, the speck of land in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to which Britain banished Napoleon after defeating him at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 (he would die on the island in 1821).

One of archaeology’s most fascinating mysteries began a new chapter when amateur archaeologists in England found a large Roman dodecahedron — one of 130 of the 12-sided ancient objects known ...