Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

The president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological ...

Archaeologists found a 300 ton shipwreck that is the largest vessel of its kind ever found in the Baltic region.

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...

Journey across tens of thousands of years in Deep Time Journeys: A Cross-Continental Look at Early Human Archaeology, a webinar that uncovers the sweeping story of our earliest ancestors. Led by ...

A Sudan desert burial site contained two clay vessels, one with the remains of a campfire. The campfire was probably part of a funeral ritual, and the remains—which likely held the scraps of a funeral ...

Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E. A new study proposes that the impressive ...

Writers in the Tang period described “golden armor,” but archaeologists had not previously had a physical example to examine. That gap is what makes this restoration notable: the conservation work ...

What do you love about being an archaeologist? I love the element of discovery, the fact that archaeology is underpinned by science, and the interdisciplinarity. Unlike other more rigid disciplines, ...

A child, hiker, or canoeist who picks up a single arrowhead is far more likely to encounter a teachable moment than criminal ...