There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Humans have feasted since the dawn of agriculture — but a new find suggests the practice of bringing exotic food to a ...

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

Archaeologists from the University of Houston working at Caracol in Belize, Central America have uncovered the tomb of Te ...

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

Peñico was established in 1800 B.C., just after the 5,000-year-old Caral civilization fell due to climate change.

Te K'ab Chaak was a wealthy warrior king who rose to power in 331 C.E. His burial is the first royal tomb found in the ...

The excavation, which followed the discovery of two Roman swords in 2023, is providing historians with fresh insights into ...

British archaeologists recently helped uncover multistory buildings from the ancient Egyptian city Imet in the Nile Delta, ...

The Teutonic Knights were a German religious order of crusaders who operated in eastern Europe in the 1000s. Similar to the ...

The remains of 3,500-year-old rice were recently found in Guam — making it the earliest known evidence of rice in Remote Oceania.

Archaeologists from the Wisconsin Historical Society's Maritime Preservation Program and the Wisconsin Underwater Archaeology Association made an accidental discovery. The discovery was made while the ...