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.

On a windswept ridge overlooking the plains of northern Oman, a pair of ancient cymbals lay buried beneath layers of plaster ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discover secret behind why we keep cats as pets - Temples dedicated to Egyptian goddess Bastet have been found ...

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 ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

Archaeologists excavating a field in the municipality of Kutenholz in the Stade District, in Lower Saxony, Germany, have ...