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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...