A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of ...

Wildcat remains in the Glencurran Cave suggest that the creature roamed in Ireland's wilderness during the Neolithic period.

The turning of the year is always a point to pause and reflect. For me, this issue marks a mindful milestone, as it is my ...

In well-thumbed old books, certain pages are more thumbed—and therefore dirtier—than others. What do those pages say about reading habits? Using a device that measures the optical density of a ...

The recovery of a cache of Korean celadon from the West Sea has produced a sight that seems to defy time: bowls that spent ...

Danish archaeologists uncovered 77 medieval graves in Aarhus, revealing the harsh realities of 12th-century Christian life ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

ATU researchers discovered the 5,500-year-old wildcat in a cave in Clare, marking a breakthrough in understanding Ireland’s prehistoric wildlife.

During work at the Manduria train station (in the north of the Salento peninsula, the "heel" of Italy), archaeologists found ...