Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

Archaeology, the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts, often unearths enigmatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of the past. These ...

It’s not just a display of the scrolls, which of course in and of themselves would be powerful,” but other “wow objects” ...

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

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

An archeological investigation into an ancient city in central Asia has shed new light on the region's economic history.

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight ...

Archaeologists are to resume digging at the Ness of Brodgar on Orkney after 3D radar technology discovered an "extraordinary" ...

Yet, having stood for over 4,500 years, historians and archaeologists are continuing to uncover new details about the ...

New evidence suggests Poverty Point’s monumental mounds were created not by a ruling elite, but by egalitarian groups drawn together by shared ritual purpose. Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer ...

The artefact is a gold cape, discovered in 1833 at Bryn yr Ellyllon in Mold and later recognised as one of the most important Bronze Age objects ever found in Britain. Now loaned from the British ...

A cauldron, chariot parts, ornate jewelry: Precious objects found in the Melsonby Hoard are shedding new light into the rituals of Iron Age Britain.