Researchers identified 19 different types of beads, whose shapes are reminiscent of plants that were harvested by Natufians, ...

Deep in the Andes mountains, the weathered walls of an ancient town poke out from the dried dirt. The ruins were discovered in the northern Argentinian Hualfin Valley by archaeologists in the 1920s, ...

What can glass beads collected from the lunar surface more than 50 years ago teach scientists about the Moon’s volcanic history? This is what a recent study published in Icarus hopes to address as a ...

Archaeologists excavating Frattesina found thousands of ancient glass artifacts near a Bronze Age furnace used for glassmaking, photos show. Photo from Paolo Bellintani Brushing away the dirt covering ...

Researchers analyzed ancient Egyptian iron beads fashioned out of meteoric iron and crafted 2,000 years before the Iron Age. Archaeometallurgist Thilo Rehren discusses how the beads were made before ...

A tube-shaped bead made of bone was discovered in Wyoming. Todd Surovell Ancient peoples in North America liked to dress up too. And when they did, many of them wore beads made of bone. This is among ...

Antiquities grew in popularity during what is often referred to as the Age of Discovery and Enlightenment in the 18th century ...

The ancient Egyptians wore jewelry made from space rock, and meteors raining from the sky may have shaped their ideas of the gods, according to new analysis of a 5,000-year-old iron bead. The iron in ...