Digging down into the Earth, they hit a statue of what they first assumed to be the Buddha. Investigations by archaeologists ...

From royal tombs to submerged ports, via the genetic secrets of ancient civilisations, archaeology delivered a series of ...

Proponents of ancient alien theories point to megalithic structures, strange inscriptions, and myths of gods descending from ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...

Seventh-century Anglo-Saxon jewelry found on a hillside in Lincolnshire; as there were no graves, these may have been ...

Coryell, born in Ohio in the late 1700s, came to Texas in the early days of the settlement period and became one of the ...

Famed archaeologist Robert Grenier, who led the discovery of the 16th-century Basque whaling ship the San Juan in Labrador, ...

The more welcoming side of Medusa turns typical mythology upside down, with the smile likely designed to represent peace and ...

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

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...