Ceramic fragments unearthed close to a geological formation on Turkey's Mount Ararat may indicate human presence during the ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

The painstaking process of recataloguing and repackaging tens of thousands of historical artefacts is under way at Northern ...

Elsewhere, a medieval loo and a jet die used to predict the future were among the finds uncovered at Auckland Castle in ...

At first, the archaeologists assumed the images came from Homer’s Iliad, the best-known account of the war. The scenes seemed ...

When a relative died, I was given an extraordinary artifact—and a head-spinning journey down a 25-year ethical rabbit hole.

We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...

A jewelry donation to a thrift store in Canada has turned out to potentially be a lot older than meets the eye. Now, a group of researchers at Simon Fraser University is trying to decipher when and ...

Tens of thousands of men were wounded or died at the Battle of Waterloo, but, remarkably, the remains of this lone solider are the only ones to have been found near one of the battle’s main staging ...

The remains of a 3,000-year-old village were recently discovered in a clay quarry called Must Farm in eastern England. The wooden houses were destroyed by fire, and the charred timbers gradually sank ...

A NEW report, the "Survey and Policy of Field Research in the Archaeology of Great Britain. 1: The Prehistoric and early Historic Ages to the Seventh Century A.D.", has recently been published by the ...