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

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

A new LIDAR mapping project is inviting the public to explore Exmoor’s hidden archaeological treasures and help protect ...

A monumental archaeological discovery in northern China is reshaping what we know about early human settlement and society.

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 young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by ...

The material used to build the Temple of Venus in Naples has remarkably endured even as Earth's surface around it sank from ...

A sweeping 3D analysis of Rapa Nui’s main moai quarry shows that the island’s iconic statues weren’t produced by a single ruling authority, but by many small, independent groups working simultaneously ...

Archaeologists have questioned who made five raised rings in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria. Some have proposed that the 65-foot-wide rings, located in what is now the Melbourne suburb ...

A few years later, in 2024, researchers put forward a study about 10,000-year-old gobs of “gum” (also pieces of resin made of ...