Researchers have resolved the 709 BC oldest solar eclipse mystery by reanalyzing ancient Chinese records and modern ...

A volunteer, digging near the cold stone of Hadrian’s Wall, made a startling discovery: an ancient silver ring featuring a delicately carved intaglio. The find pulls the curtain back on the lives of ...

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 ...

Researchers have used cutting-edge forensic science to solve a medieval mystery that has perplexed scholars for more than a ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...

A 1,700‑year Christian riddle solved in a Turkish lake sounds like the perfect archaeological headline, but the surviving documentation for that story is far thinner than the viral framing suggests.

British archaeologists have made a discovery they believe points to an unusual ancient monument that once stood in Northwest ...

Perhaps no landmark has left scientists as perplexed as Stonehenge, the ancient ring of massive stones in Salisbury Plain, ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert has unearthed a forgotten African kingdom.

With an opposable big toe resembling a human thumb, the fossilized Burtele foot suggested its owner was a skilled climber, ...

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