Finding fossils usually means months of fieldwork, a hammer, and a lot of patience. In Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost region, it took none of that. According to the University of Cambridge, a cluster ...

A study argues that copper and lead mined in Bronze Age Sardinia traveled as far as Scotland, Poland and Scandinavia — nearly 1,240 miles from where they were smelted — while the island's pottery ...

Scientists have spent sixty years arguing over why the quantum weirdness that lets atoms exist in two states at once disappears by the time you get to a cat, a coffee cup, or a person. A new ...

In the early 1980s, an American-Yugoslav team dug a trench roughly the size of a tennis court — 16 by 20 meters (52 by 66 feet) — into a low hill near the village of Opovo, in northern Serbia. Between ...

The team wasn't even looking for a grave. Kjersti Væge, project director at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, was overseeing a dig at Kongefaret 8, on the Svinesund plateau ...

Quarks, the smallest known building blocks of matter, are never seen alone. They are roughly a billion times smaller than an atom and exist only locked inside larger particles such as protons and ...

Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what ...

In 1889, a team from the École française de Rome reached a circular earthen mound roughly 30 meters (about 98 feet) across, in the Polledrara necropolis on the southern edge of the ancient Etruscan ...

In late 2025, conservators from Oxford's Ashmolean Museum brought an unassuming object to the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire: a terret, a small bronze loop that Iron Age chariots used ...

In the spring of 2019, workers dredging gravel at Deinham, a site on the Danube in Upper Austria, kept snagging strange double-pointed iron objects in the excavator's bucket. Instead of tossing them ...

In the mountainous interior of Sardinia, where the Gennargentu massif gives way to the valleys of the Flumendosa river, a site called S'Arcu 'e is Forros has been surprising archaeologists for more ...