History doesn’t always reveal its secrets willingly. While most archaeological finds eventually yield their stories through carbon dating ...

In a remarkable archaeological find, a rare papyrus containing the ‘Book of the Dead’ has been unearthed in an ancient ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently uncovered an ancient fortress that was built along the historic military road referenced in ...

A remarkable discovery in Crete has reinvigorated debate over the origins behind the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth.

Archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered an ancient Roman hospital that became a Christian sanctuary, revealing centuries ...

The burial mound, known as Kurgan No. 1, had remained completely undisturbed since antiquity, a rarity among Saka monuments that have often fallen victim to grave robbers. The tomb's structure ...

Archaeologists discovered the engraved gemstone at Bremenium, a fort north of Hadrian's Wall. Excavations at a Roman fort in ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

A volunteer metal detectorist discovered a 2,200-year-old Celtic gold coin in Germany. Found in a field in Saxony, the nearly ...

Few places on Earth carry as much weight of history as Israel. Its soil has been turned over for millennia – by armies, pilgrims, shepherds, and, more recently, by archaeologists. Since the modern ...