archeology

The guardian was caught in limbo, standing beneath and above the sand, and between warring factions in the desert for several decades. The ancient statue had seen better days—this one ...

Just a stone's throw from London Bridge subway station at The Liberty of Southwark development site, a rare ...

BERLIN—A bronze sword made more than 3,000 years ago that is so well-preserved it “almost still shines” has ...

A team of researchers have found new evidence suggesting that an extinct hominin species buried their dead and ...

Whoever hid the gold coins between the stones of the wall probably fled the city, fearing invasion. Perhaps ...

Archaeologists are confident that based on the evidence currently available, a shipwreck that has languished underwater for over ...

Commentary “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell’s frequently ...

In 2014, a glacier archaeologist in Norway was dispatched to Mt. Digervarden in Reinheimen National Park in search of ...

CAIRO—Egypt’s best-known archaeologist on Saturday revealed further details on a Pharaonic city recently found in the southern province ...

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time and one of the ...

A team of scientists may have discovered the oldest human plague from the 5,000-year-old remains of a young ...

Someone who enjoys wine three to seven days a week doesn’t need a reason to celebrate National Wine ...

A historian recently decoded a 15th-century manuscript that's considered to be the world's most mysterious text. Researchers, however, ...

Egypt has unveiled the 2,500-year-old mummy of a high priest at an ancient cemetery south of Cairo. Egyptologist ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Archaeologists confirmed a long-time suspicion of historians and say that the famed Alcatraz prison was built over ...

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities has uncovered three Ptolemaic tombs from the era just after the death of Alexander ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Experts back from assessing damage at the museum in Palmyra offered grim new details Saturday about the ...

Recently a military stronghold that used to belong to the great conqueror Genghis Khan was discovered in the ...

Typically, the media presents Alzheimer's and age-related dementia in black-and-white terms of victimhood, but what happens when it ...

There are many mysteries surrounding the ancient monuments at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. Researchers in Britain, working with ...

VANCOUVER—A new study says ancient hedgehogs and tapirs—a small rhino-like creature—once roamed the sub-tropical oasis that is now ...

Throughout extended periods of its history, the surface of Mercury crackled with volcanic explosions, a new analysis suggests.

A 3,700-year-old wine cellar was discovered in Israel in the ruins of a Canaanite palace. The 40 ceramic ...