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

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity's transition from hunter-gatherers to ...

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally. Each fascinating find brings ...

A metal detectorist finds a small 2,200-year-old Celtic gold coin in Saxony that rewrites pre-Roman trade routes in Europe.

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

Archaeology, the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts, often unearths enigmatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of the past. These ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

Interns funded by a UC-HBCU grant learned key professional skills and found their calling while excavating an archaeological ...

In the popular imagination, life at Pompeii came to an abrupt and violent end after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. Its pristine frescoes, well-preserved buildings, and petrified bodies seem ...

Archaeological sites dot the Treasure Coast from Vero Man to Old Fort Park. Not even Brightline is immune from having to work around sites. Despite protections, some sites — both known and not yet ...

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 ...

Humans evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be the ultimate flexible eaters—chasing carbohydrates and fats from plant and animal sources alike. A new study in the Journal of Archaeological ...