For five short December days each year, sunlight pierces the heart of Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old tomb whose perfect ...

A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in ...

The discovery of a burial ground layered directly over a 12,000-Year-Old monument has turned a quiet patch of countryside ...

Israel’s Civil Administration says it seized dozens of archaeological artifacts from a site north of Ramallah in Area B today ...

What first looked like a scatter of junk on the seabed off southern England has turned out to be one of the most revealing medieval shipwrecks ever found. The vessel, packed with carved stone and ...

Human figures in 'Stone Hills,' where the Bible's Abraham settled, attest to the start of human settlements 11,000 years ago: ...

A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

Archaeologists working at the animal cemetery at Berenike have documented remains from three dozen primates, marking a significant shift in Roman pet-keeping practices. Previously, the handful of ...

Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of ...

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists' ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible ...

A new study maps dozens of megalithic tombs in Spain, revealing burial mounds and a fortified Copper Age settlement.