In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in ...

A few inches below the forest floor in the eastern Taunus hills lies a stretch of the Roman frontier that has barely been ...

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of ...

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of road, perhaps, or a lone farmstead. At Sermaize, in the Hauts-de-France ...

A study argues that copper and lead mined in Bronze Age Sardinia traveled as far as Scotland, Poland and Scandinavia — nearly 1,240 miles from where they were smelted — while the island's pottery ...

Around 1880, men cutting peat at Dejbjerg, in western Jutland (Denmark), began pulling bronze pieces out of the bog that shone as if they were new. Some assumed it was gold. Others had a more ...

The newly identified fragment of the treaty of Kadesh. Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture A newly identified clay fragment unearthed at Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in central ...

In each of the Bronze Age Greek communities analyzed, between 5% and 10% of the people buried had not grown up where they died. That is one of the findings of a study in PLOS One by a team that ...

The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giants’ Tomb that until ...

Some lakes give up shipwrecks, and Arendsee, in northern Germany, has already given up one. What archaeologists brought to ...

Around 30 million years ago, a heavily built animal prowled the area that is now Vallbona de les Monges, in Lleida province ...

Most of the Persian kings whose names we know are Cyrus, Darius, Cambyses, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, Khosrow. Each has a number ...