Researchers have developed a new method to prepare bone powder for ancient DNA extraction. The method outperformed previous techniques of decontaminating ancient bones. Researchers from Max Planck ...

Bone is a material that is essential for the study of humans in long-ago times. More precisely, the collagen, or fibrous tissue, which provides the groundwork for these bones, is required for ...

Archaeologists have little insight into the methods used for the long-term processing and preservation of fish in the past. A study of traditional fish preparation employed by fisherfolk in Panama and ...

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Reporting in the ...

Microorganisms — in particular, bacteria — are skillful chemists that can produce an impressive diversity of chemical compounds known as natural products. These metabolites provide the microbes major ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the rise and fall of an ancient civilization. In an article recently featured in ...

Future concrete buildings could be made more durable — and environmentally friendly — using the long-lost building techniques of ancient Rome, a new study has found. Use of an ancient Roman ...