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

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

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

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

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

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

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about ...

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

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.

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

Archaeological excavations launched in 2022 in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem have yielded significant data on the site’s original use and appearance.

Archaeologists working in Egypt have unearthed a previously undiscovered school in the grand mortuary temple of Pharaoh ...