Burial of a 10-month-old Neanderthal with red deer jawbone leaning against the pelvis HAIFA, ISRAEL—A study conducted by Ella ...

A Viking Age cemetery that contained more than 100 graves and several boat-shaped mounds known as stone ships has been found ...

According to a report in the Derry Journal, an excavation at the seventeenth-century city walls surrounding the city of Derry ...

Dorset View reports that a nearly complete wooden spade was uncovered in a waterlogged area near Poole Harbor in southern ...

The north slope of Mount Vesuvius has largely been ignored archaeologically compared to its other sides, where the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were once located. Recent work there has shown ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

An impressive selection of grave goods including roe deer antlers (top) that could have been worn as a headdress and boars’ teeth (middle) and tusks (above) with holes drilled in them enabling ...

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—The Associated Press reports that sandstone sculptures depicting door guardians have been unearthed near the north gate of the Royal Palace at Angkor Thom, the last capital ...

WARSAW, POLAND—Newsweek reports that Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski of the University of Warsaw and his colleagues have unearthed a gold votive plaque at the Roman fort of Apsaros, a port on ...

Thousands of cuneiform tablets written in a distinctive script tell the dramatic story of a Bronze Age merchant city in Syria ...

The Native American perspective on a notorious chapter in American history is being revealed by the excavation and study of a pioneer campsite The Native American perspective on a notorious ...