It is only the second pendant like it ever found in the world, discovered during an excavation beneath the southwestern ...

King Tut’s alabaster jars have long held mystery. A new Yale study finds chemical evidence suggesting they once contained ...

Is​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ it possible that two old swords, buried only an inch below a field in Gloucestershire, contain the secret of a long-gone chapter of Britain’s history? The response of archaeologists ...

An archaeologist reveals what she learned from sifting through a 200-year-old rat nest recovered from a historic Philadelphia ...

The Ancestral Puebloans built massive cliff dwellings, complex villages, and far-reaching trade networks. Then, by the late ...

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

The victims of the Pompeii eruption wore heavy wool cloaks and tunics, suggesting different environmental conditions in summer. (University of Valencia) ...

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

Newly published research has revealed a "mysterious mass burial event" in the south of Scotland about 3,300 years ago.

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 ...