Danish archaeologists unearthed dozens of medieval graves, shedding light on how disease and hardship shaped life in early ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

A rare example of a sun hat from late Roman Egypt that was stitched together from fabrics in five colors.

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

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

A tree stump from an ancient submerged forest that is at least 6,000 years old protrudes from a beach at low tide at Pett Level in Sussex, England. (M.J. Thomas) (Ken Feisel) Experts from the British ...

These buildings at the site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey are more than 11,000 years old, making them some of the world’s earliest monumental structures. The settlement includes circular ...

In 1791, the British naval vessel HMS Pandora sank on the Great Barrier Reef while pursuing the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. The mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian, staged an uprising against ...

This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

Archaeologists have a group of unlikely allies: trees. Dendrochronology, the scientific method of studying tree rings, can pinpoint the age of archaeological sites using information stored inside old ...