The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius froze the ancient Roman city in time, giving modern-day humans a remarkable vision into the past ...

The funerary sites include both human and cattle remains.

A study published in the Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology has identified the earliest evidence of prehistoric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Often when people hear the word "archaeologist," they think of an iconic film character like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. However, ...

Spanning centuries, more than 100 historic shipwrecks have been uncovered on the seafloor of the Bay of Gibraltar by ...

Staff at the Oglethorpe University in Atlanta closed a door on May 28, 1940. Behind the door waits a carefully assembled ...

Ross County Historical Society will present a grave marker workshop and Archaeology Day on May 9 in Chillicothe.

When the city of Boston’s staff archaeologists open volunteer sign-ups for one of their historic site digs, demand rivals a ...

The University of West Florida has been working to complete the restoration of 100-year-old vernacular, or hand constructed, ...

Paleontologists have uncovered rare fossils of toothed platypuses that lived alongside freshwater dolphins, flamingos and ...

Located about five kilometers north of Prince Albert along the North Saskatchewan River, the site was first identified by researcher and avocational archaeologist Dave Rondeau. While surveying the ...