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

Tucked under London’s Palace of Westminster— one of the most famous structures in the city and home to the Houses of Parliament—archaeologists uncovered artifacts dating back 6,000 years, including ...

A site in Switzerland contained evidence of an administrative center that was part of a bigger plan to build a urban center ...

As the subway line continues onward past the Colosseum, it will run underneath more of the world’s most important cultural ...

A jewelry donation to a thrift store in Canada has turned out to potentially be a lot older than meets the eye. Now, a group ...

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

New research has shown that water movement in clay-rich soils can lift stone artifacts toward the surface—exerting a natural ...

Nearly 250 schoolchildren — some from a girls’ Lego construction team — and 35 adult volunteers helped search for the ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Archaeological excavations at the heart of London's political power have revealed remarkable prehistoric tools, medieval treasures, and architectural remains spanning six millennia beneath the Palace ...

From the arrowheads used by a Greek army to menorahs, the city offers antiquities enthusiasts many opportunities to celebrate ...