In south-east Asia, betel nut chewing has been practiced since antiquity. The plants contain compounds that enhance the consumer's alertness, energy, euphoria, and relaxation.

Scientists have introduced a new term for an ancient behavior that may hold the key to understanding humanity's complex relationship with alcohol.

An international team of archaeologists has used cutting-edge high-resolution digital imaging to examine tattoos on a 2,000-year-old ice mummy from Siberia's Pazyryk culture, revealing for the first t ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade manufacturing workshop near Kiryat Gat in southern Israel, marking the first discovery of its kind in the region.

After three centuries buried beneath Mexico's dense Lacandon jungle, archaeologists believe they have finally located Sak-Bahlán - the legendary "land of the white jaguar" and last stronghold of the r ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery at the Sant'Andrea Priu archaeological complex in Bonorva, Sardinia, unearthing three previously unknown domus de janas that add significantly to our un ...

A fresh translation of a fragmentary Sumerian tablet has revealed one of the world's oldest surviving narratives featuring a cunning fox as an unlikely hero.

Natural coastal processes have exposed a remarkable collection of ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs on Oahu's west shore, offering new insights into the island's early Polynesian inhabitants.

Insch/The ConversationThere was great excitement at the news this month that the Bayeux tapestry – the 11th-century embroidered epic depicting the conquest of England by William the C ...

Traditionally, Indigenous peoples almost universally viewed thoroughly putrefied, maggot-infested animal foods as highly desirable fare, not starvation rations. In fact, many such peoples routinely ...

In southern Jordan, archaeologists have successfully identified the location of Tharais, a long-lost Byzantine settlement that was depicted on the famous 6th-century Madaba Mosaic Map but had remained ...

New archaeological evidence has settled one of Stonehenge's most enduring mysteries, confirming that ancient Britons accomplished extraordinary feats of logistics by transporting massive stone boulder ...