The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

Archaeologists are examining bones at Çayönü Hill in the Ergani district of Diyarbakır, southeastern Türkiye, to reveal ...

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

Wind farm construction in Suffolk revealed a lost Anglo-Saxon village with 62-foot longhouses. The medieval settlement was ...

The 1,100-year-old burials of three elite warriors — two of whom were possibly father and son — have been discovered in ...

A pioneering project is aiming to uncover the hidden history of one of England's greatest cathedrals. Archaeologists say ...

The discovery in the ice mountains of Norway by archaeologists uncovered an amazingly well-preserved 1,500-year-old site for ...

Officials said the finds, announced by Egypt’s antiquities authority, shed light on settlement patterns, production, and ...

Archaeologist Linda Åsheim experienced the finding of real treasure when she discovered a pristine medieval gold ring while excavating in the historic center of Tønsberg, Norway. The exquisitely ...

Fragments of a peahen, a comedic theatrical mask and other intriguing finds are providing new insights into the history of ...

What began as a stack of fragile, century-old mine maps is being transformed into an immersive 3D window into the past by ...

The explorer LaSalle, the French explorer La Salle, he misnavigates, so the story goes, and ends up in Texas. He was looking ...