A 5,500-year-old wildcat discovered in County Clare reveals surprising insights into Ireland’s prehistoric wildlife and raises questions about the species' origins and eventual extinction.

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.

Last month, divers off the coast of South Korea retrieved 87 bowls and cups from the dark, swirling waters. The objects were ...

Archaeological evidence from sites like Madjedbebe suggested an arrival date of approximately 65,000 years ago, while genetic analyses consistently pointed to a much more recent timeframe of 47,000 to ...

Flag Fen Archaeology Park sits in the midst of a unique Bronze Age landscape east of Peterborough, in England. Some 3,500 ...

Retired senior state archaeologist Breck Parkman used artifacts found in old ruins or the chemistry of rocks to piece ...

Ran Honglin, an archaeologist working on the award-winning San­xingdui site, briefs new discoveries of bronze wares to international experts at the Fifth Shanghai Archaeology Forum on Friday. [LI HE / ...

Archaeologists recently found four spears from the 10th and 11th centuries C.E. in the water surrounding the island of Ostrów Lednicki in Poland’s Lake Lednica. Each of these rare spears is different ...

Underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University have recovered four exceptionally well-preserved medieval spears from Lake Lednica in western Poland, including one ornately decorated ...

The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea. Jimmy Jones with a Yup’ik mask he found on a beach on Alaska’s west coast last month ...

What’s the first thing you notice when you step into a museum? Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what they see?

Most visitors to the Archaeology Fair on Saturday will never need to use their newly-found skills of throwing with an atlatl or describing a moose in sign language. But if event director Gwendolyn ...