Archaeological research is unearthing Venice’s quarantine history to illuminate how the Italian city created a vast public health response 700 years ago and helped lay the modern foundation for coping with pandemics.
A new archaeological study seeks to answer the question about what led to the bird species' demise.
Anthropologists often study people who have died. Can the field provide context and comfort during a pandemic?
Politics, geography, and tradition have long focused archaeological attention on the evolution of Homo sapiens in Europe and Africa. Now, new research is challenging old ideas by showing that early human migrations unfolded across Asia far earlier than previously known.
To counter ignorance and indifference about the Holocaust, scientists expand evidence of the mass murder of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies.
An archaeologist explains why figuring out an object's age is harder than you think.