Archaeologists at Saqqara uncovered the tomb of Weni, an Old Kingdom official, with rare wooden statues and bronze tools that ...

A well-preserved 5th-century haniwa of a female shaman, foundin a tomb moat in Gunma, Japan, goes on public view.

Two small red-painted figures at La Rochelle shelter are the first stencilled rock art ever recorded in southern Africa, ...

Researchers found 19th-century shipwrecks and a castaway camp on Isla de los Estados, possibly linked to Luis Piedra Buena's ...

Archaeologists at Huacas de Moche in Peru found a late Mochica tomb with 32 grave goods, pointing to a child of high standing.

A new study shows Maya families lived among the ruins of Ake in Yucatán from CE 1100 to 1550, building homes, shrines, and town in the rubble ...

Ancient cave bear bones in Italy's Dolomites are now protected from looters, so scientists can study how the bears lived.

Archaeologists uncovered a Thracian temple in Bulgaria with a marble relief of three nymphs and Cybele, dated to Late Antiquity ...

Archaeologists in western Jutland found an Iron Age pit belt, likely a palisade, along the old Drivvej, plus a 4,500-year-old ...

Magnetic survey maps a 48-meter Roman mansio at Mellaria in Spain, a standard roadside station on the Córdoba to Mérida road.

Aurochs were the wild ancestors of modern cattle. They once roamed Europe, Asia and northern Africa. Today they’re gone. The last one died in Poland in the 17th century, ending a decline of roughly ...

A small bronze gunpowder weapon found on a Korean mountain is now identified as the country’s earliest surviving firearm. Hwangja Hwatong, a gunpowder weapon found on Geumseongsan Mountain in Naju.