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 ...

Archaeologists working beneath one of Christianity’s holiest shrines say they have uncovered traces of a cultivated garden ...

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 ...

Flash flooding in the Valley of the Kings has caused damage to the fragile rock beneath and above the archeological site. Burial chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamen, near Luxor, Egypt. Photo: Universal ...

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 ...