archaeologists

WASHINGTON—Long before the ancient Maya built temples, their predecessors were already altering the landscape of Central America’s Yucatan peninsula. Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old ...

LIMA—A team of archaeologists has discovered a network of passageways under a more than 3,000-year-old temple in the ...

Piercing the soil in the heart of downtown London, a team of archaeologists uncovered Roman artwork from the ...

AMMAN, Jordan—A team of Jordanian and French archaeologists said Tuesday that it had found a roughly 9,000-year-old shrine ...

JERUSALEM—Israeli archaeologists have found a rare ancient toilet in Jerusalem dating back more than 2,700 years, when private ...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a Byzantine-period industrial-agricultural area, including several artifacts, thought to be 1,500 years old—dating ...

AMATHUS, Cyprus—It's said that Demetrius the Besieger, a mighty warrior king and one of Alexander the Great's successors, ...

Archaeologists from the Royal Agricultural University, working with colleagues from Wessex Archaeology, conducted detailed surveys of the Anchor ...

Archaeologists carrying out excavations on a site prior to a new neighborhood development in Yavne, in Israel, recently ...

JERUSALEM—Israeli archaeologists racing against treasure hunters to search caves near the Dead Sea have discovered a trove of ...

ROME—Archaeologists have unearthed a unique ancient-Roman ceremonial carriage from a villa just outside Pompeii, the city buried in ...

After finding several treasures on the same Egyptian site over the course of a decade, archeologists have unearthed ...

Archeologists have uncovered a rare, delicate Roman mosaic that dates all the way back to the mid-5th century ...

Marine archaeologists have discovered what they say is the world's oldest intact shipwreck, at 2,400 years old, in ...

A funeral boat dating to approximately 2,550 B.C. was unearthed in Egypt by archaeologists.  At the Abusir pyramids ...

Mystery surrounds the most famous pair of lovers in ancient history.

The story of Atlantis is not unique to the ancient Greeks, as other cultures also have similar legends ...

Did a Native American set foot on European soil long before we previously thought?

Rare Chinese and Japanese bronze mirrors have the strange property of seeming both opaque and transparent at the ...

It was considerably more difficult to file a customer complaint when you had to chip it into stone ...

Will the history books change? Evidence suggests the Chinese got to America before the Europeans.

Many Mongolians believe exhuming a corpse will destroy its soul. Genghis Khan went to great lengths to prevent ...

An archaeologist working with a brewery is recreating ancient beers from around the world, from places such as ...

A Buddha statue dating back to the 11th or 12th century was examined by CT scan and endoscopy ...

People in ancient times had more advanced levels of scientific understanding than we commonly give them credit for.

The mysterious metal spoken of in ancient Greece, said to glimmer with a reddish light in Atlantis, may ...

Who built the Derinkuyu underground city and why? One among several theories is that it was a shelter ...