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

The center opened to the public in April. Archaeologists at the living history village had to move millions of delicate, ...

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, ...

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

For decades, archaeologists working in Sudan’s Eastern Desert knew the Atbai held scattered stone ruins, but the terrain was ...

Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small ...

Archaeologists found the illegal distillery on a dig at Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve near Killin. New and exciting fossils emerge into the light of day on the Isle of Wight and the Jurassic ...

Indiana Jones and Lara Croft have a lot to answer for. Public perceptions of archaeology are often thoroughly outdated, and these characterisations do little to help. Yet archaeology as practiced ...

A burial of an elite Roman-era woman who appears to have been buried with exotic resins has been discovered in Colchester.

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

Scantily clad tomb raiders and cloistered scholars piecing together old pots -- these are the kinds of stereotypes of archaeology that dominate public perception. Yet archaeology in the new millennium ...