In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden ...

Widely regarded as one of the birthplaces of modern archaeological science, the DAI pioneered the transition from indiscriminate digging at archaeological sites to the systematic excavation and ...

Archaeologists working at the necropolis of San Giuliano in Italy found a 2,600-year-old tomb untouched by looters, photos ...

An expert believes that he has rediscovered the lost Byzantine settlement of Tharais in southern Jordan. Archaeologist ...

A mosaic adorning the entrance to a fifth-century church in Turkey ’s ancient city of Olympus is both just the tip of the ...

Commercial archaeology sometimes get a bad wrap. I sat down with my friend and commercial archaeologist, Arjan to get all the ...

Archaeologists in northern Britain discovered 13-inch shoes at the ancient Roman Magna Fort, raising questions about the towering soldiers who defended the empire.

He’s no Indiana Jones, but he spent decades uncovering real treasures. Meet Chip McGimsey, Louisiana’s retiring state ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

In a groundbreaking discovery that upends prior understandings of ancient Scottish history, archaeologists have unearthed ...

It's believed that the halls may have been located near ancient travel routes, naturally drawing groups from across the ...

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...