The fourth-century a.d. Chronicles of Huayang, the oldest surviving Chinese geographical survey, records that Sichuan was ...

An underwater archaeologist from Parks Canada clears kelp from the wreck of one of the ships from Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1840s expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage. Both rescuers and ...

According to a report in The Slovak Spectator, a geophysical survey conducted at the site of the Church of the Epiphany in ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year ...

According to a BBC News report, a pit containing waste materials perhaps left behind by a pub was unearthed during an investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in southeastern England’s ...

A 4,000-year-old ring enclosure near Pömmelte in central Germany has been reconstructed after extensive excavations recovered the ring’s original dimensions.(Photo Matthias Zirn) In the middle ...

Was a new regional power, once thought of as a bloodthirsty invading force, actually a catalyst for ancient Egypt’s most prosperous era? A 12th Dynasty (1981–1802 B.C.) fresco from the tomb of ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

The woeful state of Viking bathrooms could be a factor behind smokers’ coughs in Scandinavia. Sometimes in human evolution, populations adapt in ways that aren’t always beneficial in the long run.

We gather much of what we know about Maya astronomical knowledge from detailed records they themselves created on the pages of bark-paper books called codices. In the mid-sixteenth century ...

Excavations at the site of Ein Gedi, the largest oasis on the barren and rocky western shore of the Dead Sea, have revealed a village that persisted from the 7th century B.C. to the Byzantine period.

A large-scale excavation in the middle of Berlin has uncovered artifacts and structures dating back eight centuries, including the foundations and machinery of the city’s first electrical plant ...