The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. Researchers ...

Have you ever wondered why cats, with their independent nature, became our cherished household companions? Recent archaeological discoveries are rewriting the story of cat domestication, revealing a ...

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

Archaeological excavations launched in 2022 in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem have yielded significant data on the site’s original use and appearance.

Fabio Portella, a professional diver who has worked with marine archaeologists for years, was surveying the seabed near Fontane Bianche when he found two artifacts, Sicily’s Superintendence of the Sea ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to be an abandoned, run-down castle. Others ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...