Twenty Anglo-Saxon coins found near the Vatican reveal trade, craftwork, and a thriving English community in early medieval ...

A faint name beside a dog in an ancient Egyptian tomb has added a new name to the known list of Egyptian dogs. The name appears in the 18th Dynasty tomb of User, a scribe and steward of Thutmose I, at ...

Archaeologists uncover a 1,000-year-old fortress, bishop’s palace, and rare 14th-century clay water pipe at Posa in Germany.

A structural study shows a 2,800-year-old palace in Ethiopia had walls strong enough to support far more floors than expected ...

Archaeologists found 10,500-year-old worked wood beneath Germany’s Arendsee, offering new evidence of Mesolithic lakeside ...

Volunteers on Lismore found Lios Mòr, a sixth century Scottish monastery known only from legend, with burials, buildings, and ...

Roman amulets survived the rise of Christianity. Patricia Kret studied 300 of them and found how crosses, Bible verses and old habits blended.

Archaeologists studied a life-size petroglyph and the 7th-century church built around it in Miseeda, Sudan, and traced 12,000 years of human activity.

New research shows how Greek settlers reshaped Libya’s coast to build Apollonia, the maritime port of ancient Cyrene.

A new adult fossil from South Africa confirms Homo erectus lived there about 2 million years ago, alongside changing ...

Babylonian schools taught students about gods, rituals, and proper conduct as part of their training for religious and elite ...

Study of 13,000-year-old spear points shows how Clovis and Cumberland groups managed stone resources in an unfamiliar ...