The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

A rare 2,000-year-old wooden statue of Hercules has been unearthed on the island of Ibiza, Spain, in what archaeologists are calling one of the most remarkable organic discoveries ever recorded in the ...

The Durotriges were a Celtic tribe that lived in present-day southern England prior to Roman conquest during the 1st century CE. Extensive archaeological excavations and DNA analysis indicate that the ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

A "once-in-a-generation" discovery has been made in the North, uncovering a section of Hadrian's Wall after being hidden for 2,000 years.

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030 its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it ...

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful ...

When Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, he not only found over five thousand artifacts but transformed ...

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta and offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

Humans likely left a lot of archaeological evidence along the Bering Land Bridge when they crossed from Asia to Alaska during the last ice age. But will we ever be able to dive down to examine it?

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning ...