Archaeologists have finished uncovering the longest continuous remains of an ancient wall that encircled Jerusalem, including possible evidence of a 2,100-year-old ceasefire between warring ...

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the grave of an ousted noblewoman whom they are calling "The Lady with the Inverted ...

The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...

The twin lakes, known as Zerelia, in Greece are rare examples of bodies of water that were formed from the cataclysmic impact of a meteorite.

Pandora was a triumph in the heyday of Australian maritime archaeology ( the 1980-1990s). It put Queensland on the global map for shipwreck science, galvanised local communities, and even inspired the ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

Archaeologists uncovered the first known thalamegos near Alexandria’s ancient port, a 35-meter pleasure boat matching ...

Underwater archaeologists have uncovered the wreckage of an ancient Egyptian pleasure barge in Alexandria's sunken harbour - near where Alexander the Great is believed to rest. The vessel, known as a ...

Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.