The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

Submerged in Abu Qir Bay near Alexandria, Thonis-Heracleion was a major Egyptian port city linking Mediterranean trade with ...

The power station has actually yielded quite a few archaeological discoveries spanning numerous historical eras.

The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

The Sein Island submerged stone structures include a football-field-long granite wall off Brittany that dates back more than ...

Found in an elite military hoard, this "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery challenges what we know about Iron Age warfare.

My quest for the ark of the covenant was abruptly disrupted at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. Three hours into our ...

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 ...

At first blush, the Savannah River Site and archaeology might seem like an odd pairing. After all, one was initially a ...

From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...