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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When archaeologists studying a fifth-century Swedish site found a human skeleton lying on the floor of a house, they wondered why ...

A hand stencil pressed onto the wall of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, has been dated ...

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 ...

Buried side by side since 1836, one Mexican and one Texan cannonball lay untouched beneath the Alamo’s soil for nearly two ...

Excavations in Wiltshire, England revealed a Neolithic timber circle whose cosmic precision rivals the stone monument it ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research is forcing archaeologists to confront an inconvenient truth about atlatls, a weapon that's been linked to Clovis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock What began with someone noticing a worked stone near construction on an Ohio golf course has since become an ...

Very little is known about funerary practices in Iron Age Britain, since few human remains have survived. However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from that ...