After 40 years, the Tamaqua Area Historical Society is stepping away from sponsoring and organizing Tamaqua’s popular downtown festivals. The move doesn’t mean the end for Summerfest or the Heritage ...

The discovery in the ice mountains of Norway by archaeologists uncovered an amazingly well-preserved 1,500-year-old site for ...

At first blush, the Savannah River Site and archaeology might seem like an odd pairing. After all, one was initially a ...

A peculiar seventh-century hoard unearthed in the English countryside could be the result of a “ritual killing,” according to archaeologists. A rare seventh-century gold hoard was found in ...

How the artifacts were obtained remains an open question. At the time in England, it was not uncommon for grave robbers to plunder the burials of high-status women searching for valuables. The ...

Metal detecting at the home of a Confederate general led to discoveries we didn’t expect. Odd finds beneath the soil raised questions about what secrets this property may have hidden. Every artifact ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X This underwater photo of the sunken SS Edmund Fitzgerald was taken by an unmanned submersible ...

Over the past few weeks major news outlets have written about the recovery of a chunk of volcanic glass from a “Neolithic shipwreck,” of the coast of Italy. What you need to know, is that it was not a ...

Most Western powers, particularly in western Europe, have time and again been forced to confront their grisly colonial pasts – raping, pillaging, looting, was a general feature of this period. In a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the ...