From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories.

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection ...

Before life as we know it began, early humans walked the Earth at the same time as woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. Through several prehistoric eras they lived, hunted and evolved, leaving ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. If I tried to recap all the new fossils, new methods and ...

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about our ancestors. These aren't just treasures sitting in museums. They're ...

Archaeologists have discovered one of the largest settlements ever identified in Ireland's Baltinglass hillfort landscape.