A tiny, but extremely rare, gold coin dating back more than 2,200 years has been unearthed during an excavation within...
Archaeologists have found new fragments of what is thought to be the world's sole surviving Viking Age packhorse net, adding...
A recently studied 500-year-old Inca khipu (Quipu) has overturned assumptions about who created these intricate thread-based documents. The study, published...
A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our...
Archaeologists excavating in southwestern Kenya have uncovered strong evidence that early hominins were transporting stones over long distances about 2.6...
More than 3,000 years ago, in the port city of Ugarit on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, the scribes...
For the first time since the late 19th century, artifacts believed to originate from the Daisen Kofun burial mound, traditionally...
Archaeologists have completed a three-year excavation at the Celtic oppidum of Manching in Bavaria and uncovered more than 40,000 artifacts...
A decade after its discovery in the Historic Center of Mexico City, the Huei Tzompantli of Tenochtitlan—an immense structure built...
Three meters underwater in the Gulf of Naples, archaeologists found a remarkably preserved Roman bathhouse in the submerged ruins of...
