For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

In a joint effort by National Forensic Sciences University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the identification of ...

archaeologists tend to focus on specific research questions they might want to answer, and excavate only enough to answer those questions, says Karl Harrison, a forensic archaeologist at the ...

But they are still yielding surprises. Around five years ago, Pier Paolo Petrone, a forensic archaeologist at the University of Naples Federico II, was studying remains first excavated in the ...

Pier Paolo Petrone, a forensic archaeologist at the University of Naples Federico II, was studying remains first excavated in the 1960s of what is believed to be a 20-year-old man. Petrone was ...

Police have called in a botanist, archaeologist and anthropologist as work continues to identify the skeletal human remains found at Festival Park.

Forensic archaeologist Maciej Henneberg said he was digging with a shovel and a trowel, excavating a 2m-long, 2m-deep pit of material that was in the initial area excavated on Monday. "We are ...

The remarkable project to recreate her face was led by Bournemouth bio-archaeologist Amber Manning, who used cutting-edge 3D technology and forensic techniques to give the ancient woman a face for ...

A recent forensic reanalysis has upended a 130-year-old poisoning case, exonerating Dr. Urbino de Freitas, a 19th-century physician from Porto who was convicted of poisoning his relatives to ...

The discovery of human remains in Stoke-on-Trent is being treated as an unexplained death, police have confirmed. Officers ...

Evidence unearthed by a forensic archaeologist helps to catch the killer of a young woman from Wiltshire. And a case of harrowing neglect suffered by a Welsh teenager is revealed by an insect expert.