Around 2,400 years ago, a house with several rooms stood against the defensive wall of a settlement in what is now northern Tunisia. Archaeologists have now recovered almost its entire floor plan, something the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) says has been documented for the first time. The finding comes from the second excavation […]

When the cloud of burning ash and gas rolled into the room, the wardrobe was still standing. The wood took almost twenty centuries to rot away, but by then the ash had hardened around it and kept its shape. It is the same principle behind the plaster body casts Pompeii is famous for. When archaeologists […]

To measure a horse painted 37,000 years ago, you would normally walk up to the wall. At Chauvet that is impossible. The cave floor still holds footprints tens of thousands of years old, and nobody is allowed to step on it. So the researchers worked from a metal walkway about 2.5 meters (8 feet) from […]