Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Deep within the tropical lowlands of central Panama, archaeologists just unearthed a stunning glimpse into a thriving, ...

A new re-examination suggests the piece was not an awl at all, but a drill bit used with a bow drill, making it one of the ...

There’s something kind of magical about looking at stuff from the past; it’s like a tiny peek into how people lived, worked, ...