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.

While you may believe that it's hard to learn anything new about a structure that has been around for thousands of years, ...

Archaeologists in Budapest have opened a sealed Roman limestone coffin that had rested undisturbed for roughly 1,700 years, revealing the remains of a woman and a carefully arranged collection of ...

“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 excavating a ninth-century burial site in Bjugn, Norway have uncovered something unprecedented in Scandinavian archaeology: a Viking Age woman's grave featuring two scallop shells ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

Veteran archaeologist from Dharwad Ravindra Korisettar has been selected for the Rajyotsava Award. Prof. Korisettar is a UGC Emeritus Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology in Karnatak ...

SINGAPORE – Renowned archaeologist John Miksic, who was the first to conduct an archaeological dig in Singapore in 1984, died of pneumonia on Oct 25 at the age of 79. His wife Goh Geok Yian, an ...

An artist and archaeologist has opened a new exhibition, inspired by a county's history and landscape. Dr Rose Ferraby's Downland: Art & the Archaeological Imagination, aims to explore how Wiltshire's ...

A massive archaeological scandal is currently unfolding in Germany, an archaeologist working for the Directorate General for Cultural Heritage is accused of having deliberately misdated at least 21 ...

An American archaeology student on her first-ever dig found a rare piece of 9th-century gold. Yara Souza, who is from Orlando, Florida, is an international student at Newcastle University in the U.K.