Three of 12 boat chambers at Herculaneum, with skeletons inside. Image: Norbert Nagel When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, hundreds of panicked people from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum ...

With the pandemic and accompanying economic recession clouding 2020, it goes without saying that the year will not go down as the happiest for humanity. The archaeology world also felt the effects, as ...

After completing her first anthropology courses at Brandeis, Alex Bazarsky ’23 knew she wanted to become an archaeologist. With the help of associate professor Charles Golden, she’s making her dreams ...

The 9,000-year-old remains of a young woman found buried with her big-game hunting toolkit suggests the division of labor by gender was more equitable in the past than is often assumed. The woman, who ...