Lead in urban Roman infrastructure may have led to long-term impacts on the population’s health, scientists say ...

Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...

New research shows stone tool production in the Central African rainforest remained remarkably consistent for a period of ...

Traces of Stone Age feasts, a Roman battle in the hills of southern Scotland, and an amulet once thought to be imbued with ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

According to the team, that pine pitch is the first major new clue in over a century. When the boat was built, Denmark itself ...

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The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new clues about where these raiders came from.

One standout piece is a ceramic shard scratched with a lively image of a horse, added after the vessel was fired.

New DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire ultimately shifted the population in the Balkans.

Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived ...