What was thought to be a military port is actually something much more intriguing, new research suggests
Archaeologists found a 14th-century burial and other previously unknown artifacts below the floor of the medieval church.
Lying 9,800 feet beneath Antarctic waters, Endurance is standing upright and in a “a brilliant state of preservation.”
Based on the dagger's chemistry and a 3,400-year-old tablet, scientists don’t think it’s from Egypt.
Endurance, which sank in the Weddell sea after being tapped and then crushed by ice, hasn’t been seen in over 100 years.
The practice was likely an attempt to “reconstruct” the dead.
The metal straws were used to drink from communal vessels during banquets, according to a new study.
The revised estimate, based on nearby volcanic ash, fits in nicely with most models of modern human evolution.
Far from the hulking beasts shown in modern depictions, the horses used in Medieval battles were more like ponies.
The Wari Empire ruled the South American highlands for centuries with help from hallucinogenic parties, new evidence suggests.
Archaeologists found a variety of worm eggs in a cesspit under an Iron Age estate, showing that even elites suffered from poor sanitation.
Human and dog remains at Çeşme-Bağlararası are the latest evidence of the Thera eruption and the ensuing tsunami that roared through the Mediterranean.
The face of Amenhotep I hadn’t been seen for 3,000 years... until now.
A pregnant mummy, a frozen time capsule, a Pompeii snack bar, and a lost Egyptian city make our annual list.
An ancient anthropogenic footprint, brought about by hunting, tool production, fire use, and other behaviors, has been discovered in Germany.
Researchers found sheep DNA at the bottom of a Faroese lake that dates to several hundred years before the Viking settlement.
The baby girl was buried with dozens of beads and the talon of an eagle owl.
The skeleton was found among dozens of others buried at the site of a former Roman-era village.
A batch of archaeological evidence is now the first to be confidently linked to the extinct Denisovans.
The physicist’s errors are literally worth more than his correct calculations.
