Harry is a U.K.-based senior staff writer at Live Science. He studied marine biology at the University of Exeter before ...

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Pompeii is well known as an iconic Roman city. But for much of its early history, it wasn’t Roman at all. It belonged to the ...

Archaeologists often focus on what skeletal remains can tell about how and when ancient peoples died. But an individual’s ...

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The archaeological discoveries span several areas of ancient Chinese life, including agriculture, textiles, animal ...

The pre-Roman baths of Pompeii would have been seriously grotty, according to an analysis of mineral deposits.