French researchers are investigating what they believe could be the pathway of long-lost Roman canal constructed over 2,000 years ago.

For nearly a century, the 1,400-year old Sutton Hoo burial site has provided an intriguing window into Britain's Anglo-Saxon ...

The Secwépemc people, known by non natives as the Shuswap, are a Nation of 17 bands occupying the south central part of the Province of British Columbia, Canada. The ancestors of the Secwépemc people ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered and deciphered in Cambridge and revealed to contain thrilling ...

Five thousand years ago, Bronze Age societies in Mesopotamia constructed elaborate stone tombs filled with remarkable grave goods and evidence of human sacrifice on a significant scale.

The location of a golden chest believed to hold the original version of the Ten Commandments has long been a mystery, with ...

In an announcement that has generated a storm of controversy, a team of Italian and Scottish researchers claims to have made ...

From the human perspective, maggots are thoroughly disgusting, and when meat is infested with them it means it is spoiled and ...

The 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb stands as one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds of the 20th ...

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary fortress ci ...

Several years ago archaeologists excavating the site of the former Animal Husbandry Center at Nescot College in Ewell, Surrey ...

In what is being described as a rare and exciting find, archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,200-year-old tomb that ...