Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Unearthed off the coast of Alexandria, the vessel may have once measured 115 feet long. Experts think it would have held a "luxuriously decorated cabin" and a team of 20 rowers ...

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Archaeologists uncovered the longest continuous section of the Hasmonean Kingdom wall foundation in Jerusalem, built decades ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

Archaeologists working in the historic Turkish city of İznik have revealed a stunning third-century fresco depicting Jesus as the "Good Shepherd"—the only known example of this iconic Christian motif ...

The Greek philosopher Thales, who was born in the seventh century B.C. in the city of Miletus on the coast of ancient Anatolia, espoused the principle that water was the arche, or beginning, of all ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the ...

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

Christian archaeology does not simply look at the past, he wrote, but it also speaks to all people in the present day.

The operation saw nine people placed in pre-trial detention and 14 under house arrest in Sicily alone. Charges levied against ...