Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Roman city of Gabii have uncovered a massive stone-lined basin that may represent one ...

Archaeologists have identified a 4,000-year-old human handprint pressed into the surface of an Egyptian tomb offering, a small impression that opens an unexpectedly intimate window into life and labor ...

A flipped Roman glass cup revealed symbols once thought decorative but now understood as ancient makers’ marks. In the quiet atmosphere of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith noticed an unexpected ...

Archaeologists in Milan have turned a 15th century sketch by Leonardo da Vinci into a working blueprint, tracing his inked ...

Retired senior state archaeologist Breck Parkman used artifacts found in old ruins or the chemistry of rocks to piece ...

It is an exciting time for archaeology in the UK, with a massive find being uncovered of a hidden section of Hadrian’s Wall near Carlisle. And sure, that’s not exactly London – but it’s just a few ...

Stone and tile diagrams in an ancient Pompeii building have been linked to Roman surveyors and their sophisticated measuring tools and highly guarded secret craft. Ancient Roman measuring specialists ...

For the first time in nearly two millennia, visitors to Rome's mighty Colosseum can walk through a hidden imperial passage that once allowed Roman emperors to move unseen through the ancient ...

An artist and archaeologist has opened a new exhibition, inspired by a county's history and landscape. Dr Rose Ferraby's Downland: Art & the Archaeological Imagination, aims to explore how Wiltshire's ...

Most visitors to the Archaeology Fair on Saturday will never need to use their newly-found skills of throwing with an atlatl or describing a moose in sign language. But if event director Gwendolyn ...

Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was actually a German cultural institute which played a pivotal role in ...