On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

Models help scientists understand everything from the particles that make up the universe to massive superstructures of galaxies at the beginning of time. But sometimes they model more mundane, though ...

The burial plots were spread over nine separate archaeological sites. Archaeologists uncovered "unusual" Viking burial plots and treasures across a number of archaeolgical sites. Large cremation sites ...

A road construction project in Scotland unearthed the remains of a pre-Roman hilltop fort. Excavations of the fort revealed an underground chamber that had been built with river rock. Just what this ...

History doesn’t always reveal its secrets willingly. While most archaeological finds eventually yield their stories through carbon dating and careful analysis, some discoveries resist every attempt at ...

Excavations at a Roman fort in England north of Hadrian's Wall have revealed a unique engraved gemstone depicting a grape-harvesting scene from Roman mythology — imagery that's rarely found in ...

A sealed crypt under a Polish monastery required archaeologists to tunnel underneath the building to investigate. Inside they found three layers of coffins, some stacked on metal rods. An unusual ...

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 ...

Five years ago, archaeologists announced they had discovered a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico. Built between 1000 and 800 B.C.E., the complex is known as Aguada Fénix, and researchers ...

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Radio Prague International report, the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes estimates that several thousand people killed by the Nazi and Communist ...

In April 1746, troops met near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands for a brief but deadly battle. One group, known as the Jacobites, was led by Charles Edward Stuart, who sought to restore the Stuart ...

Finding the oldest Maya site ever documented was only the beginning of archaeologist Takeshi Inomata’s discoveries. After locating the Aguada Fénix site buried in the jungle of southern Mexico in 2017 ...