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

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

The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...

Christian archaeology does not simply look at the past, he wrote, but it also speaks to all people in the present day.

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In 2023, archaeologists announced the discovery of arrowheads in a grotto in southern France dated to 54,000 years ago, and ...

It’s not just for ChatGPT. Archaeologists have increasingly been finding new ways to deploy artificial intelligence in their search for buried truths—especially in terrain inhospitable to human ...