Poland detained a Russian archaeologist who works on an ancient site in Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014. Ukraine calls ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

A new study shows that Etruscan cities grew through shifting land use, farming, and settlement patterns in ancient Italy.

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A "cabinet of curiosities" inspired by the crabapple flower-shaped window lattices of the Prince Kung's Palace Museum draws ...

When researchers first saw the ghostly outline of an ancient hull glowing on their screens, they were looking at a ship so intact that its age seemed almost impossible. The vessel lay far beyond the ...