Two shaped wooden objects from a waterlogged lakeshore in Greece are the oldest handheld wooden tools on record. The debate they open is not about dates — it is ...

From a cheeky slingshot to Paul's letters and information on King Nebuchadnezzar, new research is offering insight into some ...

A UW La Crosse senior is combining two passions—archaeology and tattoos—into a groundbreaking research project that's ...

An archaeological excavation in northern Israel has brought to light a cave unlike almost any other in the region. Hidden ...

Archaeologists diving off northwestern Australia recovered 269 stone artifacts from sites now submerged eight to forty-five ...

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 ...

Ata Hassanpour, head of the excavation team and director-general of Lorestan province’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department, said the first phase of excavation and documentation had ...

Archaeologists in Central Europe have uncovered more than 1,000 ancient artifacts ahead of railway construction, including a rare Roman-era tool used to make metal wire. The news was announced in an ...

The classic image of an archaeologist is of someone unearthing a potsherd in Pompeii or opening a Viking grave to better understand the distant past. Yet the same methods can also be applied to our ...

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Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed 10 "extremely rare" prehistoric stone hand axes that were crafted to deliberately include geological features, including fossils and geodes, a new study finds.

Archaeologists in the U.K. have uncovered the remains of a previously unknown Roman villa during ground survey work ahead of cable-laying for offshore wind farms. Nearly 2,000 years ago, the villa in ...