Archaeologists excavating a necropolis in Italy have uncovered a spectacular urn, which dates back thousands of years and ...

A team of archaeologists believes that three impressively sized circular ditch structures from around 4500 B.C.E.—which the ...

Archaeologists discovered a nearly 2,800-year-old dam near Jerusalem's Pool of Siloam, the biblical site where Jesus healed a ...

Norwegian researchers unearthed thousands of well-preserved leather objects from the 13th-15th centuries in Oslo's Bjørvika ...

The limestone chamber is marked with inscriptions identifying the deceased and honoring the deity Jupiter. Officials say it's the first tomb of its kind to be found in the country ...

In a remarkable archaeological breakthrough, researchers have unearthed a 16-ton treasure-laden tomb within the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in Xi’an, China. This discovery, remarkably ...

A groundbreaking study of Latvia’s ancient Zvejnieki cemetery has overturned long-held ideas about Stone Age life and death. Researchers have uncovered new details about life and death during the ...

Hunter-gatherer societies between 12,000 and 4,000 years ago used smoke-drying techniques to preserve the dead, a new study reveals.

Scientists have dated the earliest-known fortified settlement built by humans, and they were stunned by the identity of its ...

Missouri State University researchers are crowdfunding an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest to search for evidence of an ...

A 9,000-year-old quartz tool site reflects a moment in West African Late Stone Age history when people gathered to make ...

Researchers can study volcanic deposits at archaeological sites to piece together how ancient people responded to ...