The site is widely identified with the ancient village of Bet Zecharia, where the Seleucid army and the forces of Judah ...

A scientific team that includes research staff from the University of the Basque Country (EHU) has succeeded in ...

Archaeology and cutting-edge science have come together to unlock secrets and rewrite stories of the Lancaster district's ancient past.Human remains ...

Work to rebuild a prehistoric roundhouse destroyed by a fire is expected to be complete by January. The Iron Age replica at ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

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 first Denisovan skull, an ancient hunter’s toolkit and a Roman man’s brain that has turned to glass: here are our picks ...

At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

The relationship between archaeology and espionage is close. During the twentieth century, for example, both Britain and the United States recruited archaeologists working in some of the world’s most ...