Legend says that Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, twin brothers who after being abandoned as infants, suckled a she-wolf to survive. The image of the young boys at the wolf’s teat has been ...

It is called radiocarbon 3.0, the newest method in radiocarbon dating, and promises to reveal valuable new insights about key events in the earliest human history, starting with the interaction ...

Radiocarbon dating constitutes a cornerstone of palaeoclimate research by providing temporal control on environmental archives. Raw radiocarbon (14C) determinations must be translated into calendar ...

Radiocarbon dating of lacustrine sediments underpins our understanding of past environmental and climatic change by establishing chronologies for organic and inorganic deposits in lake basins.

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

Kyrenia Ship Hull during excavation. Kyrenia Ship hull on the seabed off northern Cyprus during underwater excavation in the later 1960s. Updated radiocarbon calibration techniques provide improved ...