A team of researchers led by the British Museum has unearthed the oldest known evidence of fire-making, dating back more than 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk. The discovery shows humans were ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

We crossed the globe to the tiny, remote island to sample the splendid desolation of the emperor’s exile under a scornful British governor Text by Erica Munkwitz and James L. Swanson; Photographs by ...

In 2001, construction in Vilnius, Lithuania, revealed a mass grave of more than 1,000 soldiers and camp followers of Napoleon’s Grand Army who perished during the emperor’s disastrous 1812 retreat ...

This year, researchers worldwide have finally found answers to some mysteries that have persisted for decades, even centuries ...

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing ...

New graphic memoir traces how archaeology – and US academia – evolved over 50 years In ‘The Boomer Archaeologist,’ UC San Diego Prof. Thomas Levy presents the story of his American dream, passion for ...

New graphic memoir traces how archaeology – and US academia – evolved over 50 years In ‘The Boomer Archaeologist,’ UC San Diego Prof. Thomas Levy presents the story of his American dream, passion for ...

Within hours of the trailer for next year's "Odyssey" being released, the internet was critiquing the accuracy of the film.

Archaeology is the study of the artefacts and other physical evidence left by past societies of humans and closely related species. It uses scientific analysis of field samples to inform historical ...

Five pieces of wood in a silver-and-gold container at a basilica in Rome may be the remains of the manger Jesus was laid on when he was born.

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...