In an incredible stroke of luck (or is it really precocious skill?), a three-year-old amateur archaeologist has made history in Israel by discovering a rare artifact that dates back nearly 3,800 years ...

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a static period in East Asia.

French researchers are investigating what they believe could be the pathway of long-lost Roman canal constructed over 2,000 ...

For nearly a century, the 1,400-year old Sutton Hoo burial site has provided an intriguing window into Britain's Anglo-Saxon ...

From the human perspective, maggots are thoroughly disgusting, and when meat is infested with them it means it is spoiled and ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered and deciphered in Cambridge and revealed to contain thrilling ...

The Secwépemc people, known by non natives as the Shuswap, are a Nation of 17 bands occupying the south central part of the Province of British Columbia, Canada. The ancestors of the Secwépemc people ...

The location of a golden chest believed to hold the original version of the Ten Commandments has long been a mystery, with ...

Several years ago archaeologists excavating the site of the former Animal Husbandry Center at Nescot College in Ewell, Surrey ...

Five thousand years ago, Bronze Age societies in Mesopotamia constructed elaborate stone tombs filled with remarkable grave goods and evidence of human sacrifice on a significant scale.

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary fortress ci ...