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Two millennia before anyone called it street art, the people of Pompeii were already at it: scratching jokes, insults of enemies, declarations of love and raunchy drawings into the city walls. Now, in a narrow corridor that once joined two theatres, an international research team has put advanced digital imaging …

Archeologists have found the remains of an ancient camp on a remote High Arctic island that dates back more than 4,000 years. They offer surprising new insights about the first people who lived near what is now the Canada-Greenland border and journeyed to take advantage of a rich new ecosystem …

Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Thieves broke into the national museum in the Syrian capital and stole several ancient statues dating back to the Roman era, officials said Tuesday. The National Museum …

A crucial archaeological site in Saskatchewan has become a target for illegal scavenging. Âsowanânihk, which means “a place to cross” in Cree, is located near Prince Albert and is estimated to be around 11,000 years old. It holds a wealth of evidence of Indigenous settlements that likely existed there. A local ambassador for the site says national …

The first surface samples retrieved from the dark side of the moon show that there used to be erupting volcanoes there, just as there were on the near side billions of years ago, according to new research. China’s Chang’e-6 robotic spacecraft made history in June by retrieving the samples on …

More than nine months after ancient human remains were discovered in a Riverdale neighbourhood, the City of Toronto has spent nearly $200,000 monitoring the location. But little has been done to secure or discover more about it, much to the disappointment of a Six Nations of the Grand River archaeologist …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A crew installing a water service line uncovered human remains Jan. 5 at their worksite site on Withrow Avenue, according to City of Toronto officials. Const. Laura Brabant with the Toronto police says an anthropologist was called to identify the remains. “The …

Another way a ‘nature economy’ is finding a foothold is through talent acquisition. Scott Sinclair, whose company, SES Consulting, retrofits buildings to move them off fossil fuels, says having a nature-first mindset baked into the business model attracts innovative young minds who grew up with the environment front and centre …

A family of sea otters emerges from the ocean and rambles up the rocky shoreline, while a great blue heron in search of a meal pokes at a wall of rocks. Fountains of water squirt upwards from clams that have buried themselves across the beach. Ken Thomas, standing on a …

Artisanal baking is undergoing a resurgence around the world — and that includes Israel. Hagay Ben Yehuda is one of a small number of Israeli bakers who stick close to the old ways, working by hand with organic ingredients to produce healthier, tastier bread. He is a fifth-generation baker, working at …