Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 17th-century military camp in Germany. Some of the findings ...

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

This rare state of preservation gave researchers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study Roman wine in its original, liquid form ...

The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

Archaeologists will coordinate with city crews on an upcoming road work project in Cedar Rapids due to a “unique aspect of ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an ...

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Archaeologists excavating at Saqqara Necropolis found a 4,300-year-old tomb of a poorly known prince with a unique fake door, photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.