Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...
Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that are older, more complex, and more surprising than the history books ever ...
Recent archaeological discoveries across North America are challenging our understanding of the continent’s prehistoric past. From the arid Southwest to the coastal regions, these finds reveal a rich ...
In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed field and received a signal. What he unearthed over the following days would ...
While excavating a cemetery full of medieval knights in Spain, archaeologists discovered the remains of a middle-aged man with two stab wounds on his head and a bashed-in knee, suggesting he died in ...
A gigantic scorpion-shaped mound built centuries ago in Mexico may align with the winter and summer solstices, a new study finds. Archaeologists documented the 205-foot-long (62.5 meter) mound in 2014 ...