Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

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For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Are these ancient symbols complete words, part of words, or part of sentences? The solution will earn the successful ...

This mountain city in Bulgaria is known as the Machu Picchu of Europe but is less crowded and easier to get to, while still full of ancient mysteries.

The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...