Last December, flames engulfed Ohio’s Overfield Tavern Museum. Now archaeologists get to dig beneath the floorboards.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient well in eastern Croatia have discovered the skeletons of seven men whose bodies had been tossed in haphazardly. Experts think the remains belong to Roman soldiers ...

Spooky-looking wooden figurines with quartzite eyes are 2,600 years old and may be linked to a Norse god. This set of carved figurines was discovered in the parish of Roos, on England's east coast.

Scientists recently confirmed Rapa Nui legends about Moai heads "walking" to their locations, using 3D modeling to prove ...

About 12,000 years ago, a human living in the Arabian desert carved “incredibly beautiful” rock art into a cave’s wall. While ...

We’re in probably the greatest [period of] inequality our species has ever seen, and so the natural question for many of us ...

Complexity science can help archaeologists understand how the everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the ...

From being branded as primitive brutes to misunderstood geniuses, Neanderthals have long been misrepresented. Fossil and ...

The 13th annual Archaeology Fair took place at the Marquette Regional History Center that afternoon. Attendees of all ages celebrated International Archaeology Day with hands-on activities and a ...

A 5,000-year-old piece of pottery discovered in Turkey depicts a detailed human face. Likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, experts said the fragment was from early Anatolian civilizations and is an ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...