Archaeologists identified the tomb as belonging to a high-ranking military leader who served under Ramesses III, a pharaoh ...

The ancient Roman settlement of Liternum was found in 194 B.C. and thrived for about 400 years before rapidly declining and ...

An attentive passerby noticed something in a wetland in Sweden and picked up a rusty brown loop. The item turned out to be a rare Viking artifact. The finder, who chose to remain anonymous, visited a ...

It is the only known example of a cave used by prehistoric humans for both burials and artworks, said the site's lead ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

If scientists are correct about the stone’s lineage, it could be one of the oldest examples of rock art known to man. To date, the earliest examples discovered are believed to belong to the Upper ...

The two pieces of the 800-year-old sculpture were discovered roughly 160 feet away from each other at the Ta Prohm Temple in ...

The team noted that some remains belong to people who had done very little physical activity during their lifetimes while ...

The metal pieces belong to what is now described as “one of the largest and most important Iron Age finds in the (United Kingdom),” according to a March 25 news release from Durham University.

Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social ...

Hundreds of administrative tablets dating back over 4,000 years have been discovered by archaeologists. The state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, now Tello in the south of Iraq ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of archaeology's most significant discoveries. Researchers found its petals ...