Archaeologists in France have discovered three ancient storage jars brimming with tens of thousands of Roman coins. The ...

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

The project includes the UNESCO heritage site Göbeklitepe – "Potbelly Hill" in Turkish – which is home to the oldest known ...

A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress.

Archaeologists discovered the remains of a 5,500-year-old wildcat, placing the species on Irish soil almost 4,000 years ...

Some of the ancient buildings, located along China’s mountaintop rivers, dated back to as far as 2800 B.C.E., with others ...

Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology led to an "extraordinary ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” ...

An “extraordinary discovery” has been made at one of Orkney’s most stunning Neolithic sites, which could completely rewrite ...