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, ...

New Delhi: Amalananda Ghosh is not a name that comes up naturally in conversations on Indian archaeology. He was the torchbearer of Indian archaeology after Independence, steering the Archaeological ...