Desertification and climate change are threatening ancient sites in the Sahara.

The English paid a high price for medieval fashion: in bunions and broken bones.

Are the descriptions of war passed down by ancient historians accurate? A site in Sicily provided a rare chance to fact-check stories told about two battles from more than 2,400 years ago.

Combining archaeological evidence, aerial scans and machine learning algorithms, researchers modeled how this medieval city grew over time.

Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.

It's possible that low oxygen levels in caves produced hallucinations – but that doesn't explain the majority of prehistoric art.

Research into the bodies of victims of the Vesuvius eruption show how pyroclastic flows affect the human body.

Proposed legislation would identify and protect African American cemeteries. But it wouldn't cover the remains of thousands of Black people in museum collections.