Easter Island's iconic moai statues have long puzzled the world, but new research hints at a surprising twist in their ...

Peru's Ministry of Culture has confirmed a groundbreaking discovery that rewrites the history of ancient astronomy in the Americas. Archaeologists working at the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex ...

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

The passage of time and improvements in technology mean that things that were thought to be immutable become a reality and, ...

Archaeologists are set to resume excavations at the Ness of Brodgar after a remarkable discovery.The discovery was made using ...

In 1908, a cowboy stumbled upon ancient bones after a rainstorm—uncovering a lost civilization far older than anyone believed. The Folsom people hunted massive Ice Age bison, crafted superior fluted ...

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

The death and subsequent resurrection of the man considered to be the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, marked a turning point in ...

“The preservation, the jewellery, the symbolism, it’s extraordinary on multiple levels,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) archaeologist Raymond Sauvage says of the discovery of a ...

Archaeologists from the Budapest History Museum made the significant discovery during extensive excavations in Óbuda, a ...

The sarcophagus was found among abandoned houses in a quarter of Aquincum that had been vacated in the 3rd century and later repurposed as a burial ground. Nearby discoveries included a Roman aqueduct ...

Construction crews sometimes expect to hit old pipes or forgotten foundations, not the footprint of a lost town that has been buried for nearly two millennia. When a worksite suddenly exposes streets, ...