Imagine stumbling upon an object so strange, so impossible to explain, that it throws everything you thought you knew about ...

Thousands of artifacts, including a more than 150-year-old bottle of alcohol, were recently discovered during an excavation ...

Many of the greatest wonders of times past were discovered by accident. French soldiers stumbled across the Rosetta Stone in ...

Among the 1,000 artifacts discovered under St. Peter Street were buttons, coins and clues about two fires that destroyed the ...

Maritime archaeologists from Denmark's Viking Ship Museum have unearthed an extraordinary find beneath the waters near Copenhagen - the largest medieval cog ever discovered. The 600-year-old vessel ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- ISIS extremists have reveled in destroying ancient shrines and antiquities, posting videos on social media of their vandalism. In an odd twist, however, they've inadvertently uncovered ...

We might think that everything that is to be discovered from our historical past has been discovered by hard working ...

The summer months are the time to work on big highway construction projects. But once you start digging, you never know what you might uncover. “We have over seven pit houses and similar structures ...

Starting a fire led to advancements such as cooking, which unlocked nutrients that improved the size and cognition of the Neanderthal brain.

Archaeologists working at an ancient burial site in Bahrain have made a remarkable discovery that is shedding new light on the mysterious Dilmun civilization. A rare 3,300-year-old faience mask was ...

From royal tombs to submerged ports, via the genetic secrets of ancient civilisations, archaeology delivered a series of ...

According to a report by the Xinhua News Agency, archaeologists in China announced the discovery of a tomb from this period that is jangling with dozens of glittering artifacts that were designed ...