The existence of a submerged medieval city in Kyrgyzstan has been confirmed, offering clues about the history and trade ...

During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

Chinese archaeologists uncovered the largest Ming Dynasty cannon ever found during excavations at the Great Wall’s Jiankou section, alongside rare artifacts and ancient structures.

Square-shaped skull discovered at Balcón de Montezuma archaeological site in Tamaulipas, Mexico, showing unique cranial modification technique. ( Technical Archive of the Physical Anthropology Section ...

Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology at the Russian Academy of Sciences have made an extraordinary discovery at the Vysokaya Mogila-Studenikin Mar necropolis in Russia's Orenburg Region - ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors unified the land, people were already experimenting with civilization, laying ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as “one of the most important” archaeological finds of all time. Almost everything we know about the Assyrian ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use ...

The artefact is a gold cape, discovered in 1833 at Bryn yr Ellyllon in Mold and later recognised as one of the most important Bronze Age objects ever found in Britain. Now loaned from the British ...

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

Dr. Monika Badura and her colleagues have published a study analyzing an isolated burial found in the Bayuda Desert in the journal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. The discovery, made at ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...