An international team of researchers has uncovered hidden clues about life in the hills of ancient southwest Samos, Greece.

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...

The museum landscape of the Athens region of Greece is set for a transformation in 2026 as four major projects near ...

Surface ceramics from ancient Samos reveal a self-sufficient rural economy, challenging the island’s image as a ...

Wisconsin Historical Society researchers have uncovered 16 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, some of which are thousands of ...

Founded in 1506, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is the world’s longest continually operating army, and, with a maximum of 135 ...

Among the most exciting finds is a ring-shaped jade dragon with a slit, a signature artifact of the Hongshan culture. "It was ...

An attorney for the archaeologist who helped find unmarked graves of enslaved people at Capital City Country Club is ...

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.

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

These universal truths form the shared foundation upon which a great deal of rigorous and robust merit-based inquiry is ...