An ancient reindeer trap and weapons recently emerged from Norway’s melting mountains, surprising archaeologists and giving ...

Interns funded by a UC-HBCU grant learned key professional skills and found their calling while excavating an archaeological ...

Some of the carved masks indicated that the nearby Roman theater hosted much more than just staged dramas.

Archaeologists reveal that an ordinary house in Bosham was the private headquarters of King Harold II, which changes local ...

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

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

A thrift shop in Chilliwack, British Columbia, contacted Simon Fraser University's archaeology department after a customer suggested 11 rings and two medallions, priced at $30, might be ancient ...

Well-known examples of the archeological record being affected by inauthentic artifacts are the 1920s Glozel hoax in France and the fossil forgery known as Piltdown Man. Other examples of the ...

The image of a medieval knight moving slowly and stiffly under the tremendous weight of his costly armor as he readies for battle or a joust is firmly fixed in people’s imagination. But, according to ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.