An eye-opening study published in the renowned open-access journal PLOS One has unveiled new evidence suggesting that Bronze Age inhabitants of Denmark were capable of directly navigating the open sea ...

During routine renovations of a Vienna soccer field in October, construction crews stumbled upon an astonishing find: an ancient mass grave filled with intertwined skeletal remains, from what were cle ...

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 ...

In an announcement that has generated a storm of controversy, a team of Italian and Scottish researchers claims to have made ...

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 ...

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

The 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb stands as one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds of the 20th ...

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.

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 ...

In what is being described as a rare and exciting find, archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,200-year-old tomb that ...