It's 10 years since Star Wars put Skellig Michael on the international map. A decade on, Gemma Tipton visits to see the ...

Archaeologists announced a reward for information leading to the arrest of a grave robber that stole human remains from 1,700 ...

You think you know Stonehenge. The iconic rock towers standing against a green field and a gray English sky are one of the ...

In new document, the Pope says archaeology not only provides historical data but also allows theology to remain rooted in the ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

Pope Leo XIV on Dec. 11 published a new apostolic letter in which he praised Christian archaeology as a work capable of ...

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

Culloden was also the last pitched, large-scale battle fought on British soil, cementing its significance in modern British history.

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...

Because of its importance not just to Jews, but to the West, excavating the City of David has engendered much hostility, speakers said at a Dec. 9 event.

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