Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of ...

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that ...

Historic findings from a medieval palace are to be analysed in front of the public as part of an "open laboratory". The ...

High in Norway’s mountains, a lone hiker recently walked across a patch of retreating ice and stumbled onto a scatter of ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

Archaeologists excavating some ruins in Turkey unearthed five loaves of Communion bread from 1,200 years ago, officials said. Photo from the Karaman Governorate The summaries below were drafted with ...

In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed field and received a signal. What he unearthed over the following days would ...

Most people understand, generally, what archaeology entails. Which is to say, lots of digging in dirt and carefully brushing things off. More specifically, archaeologists are looking to unearth these ...

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally... A 6th-century Byzantine bucket, an ancient Egyptian royal tomb and a sanctuary dedicated to the ...