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 ...

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

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.

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use nearly 8,000 years earlier.

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...