The emerging importance of the find underscores a key truth about archaeology: artifacts often hold secrets that only later ...

Study finds the oldest known North American dinosaur fossil in Wyoming, challenging previous beliefs about dinosaur evolution.

The intricately crafted coffin dates back more than 1,500 years. Researchers say it weighs around 1,650 pounds, "comparable ...

The Related Group has offered to donate hundreds of thousands of ancient artifacts and other relics unearthed at the site of ...

"I stepped on it and I thought it was a log." When North Carolina teens Eli Hill, Jackson Holcomb, and Creek Hyatt headed out ...

A fascinating new photography project takes viewers on a poignant journey through African American material culture, using ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

In 1901, a broken tombstone from the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown was rediscovered in ...

The Vikings that came to America changed the new world in some ways, and their story goes on, well after the landing and ...

In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous ...

This date happens to coincide with the end of the last Ice Age, a time when an ice-free corridor likely emerged in North America — giving rise to an idea about how early humans moved into the ...

Archaeology excels in giving insights into the everyday lives of people in the past. It is only very occasionally that we get those spine-tingling moments when we can connect the artifacts and ...