The evidence turns previous assertions that the Italian Christopher Columbus was the first foreigner to step foot in the New ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky joins world leaders at Munich Security Conference. Ukraine is expected to be top of the ...

(The Conversation) — As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, ...

Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.

The remarkably well-preserved basilica was part of a public meeting place where citizens and politicians could socialize, ...

The Lovers of Valdaro, an ancient Stone Age couple entwined in an eternal embrace, have been discovered in an archaeological search.

An office building from the 1930s in London was about to be demolished — until remnants of the city’s first Roman basilica ...

In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed.

Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

Welcome to ‘sensory heritage’, the study of how we engage with objects from the past besides what they look like.

Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests.