Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts told Live Science.

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

Recent discoveries in archaeology have unveiled a previously unknown civilization that could fundamentally alter our understanding of human history. This civilization’s unique characteristics and ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Few places on Earth carry as much weight of history as Israel. Its soil has been turned over for millennia – by armies, pilgrims, shepherds, and, more recently, by archaeologists. Since the modern ...

Archaeologists in Beijing announced important discoveries in the recent excavation of the Jiankou section of the Great Wall, where a large cannon has been unearthed.

Archaeologists excavated site near Bentfeld and found a rare 1,600-year-old wooden structure and other artifacts, officials said. Photo from EggensteinExca / S. Knippschild via LWL The summaries below ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...