In July 1860, the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to arrive in the United States—landed in Mobile, Alabama. The wooden ...

Watching an American icon like Indiana Jones battle Nazis in “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” it’s hard to believe that it was ...

An expert believes that he has rediscovered the lost Byzantine settlement of Tharais in southern Jordan. Archaeologist ...

A mosaic adorning the entrance to a fifth-century church in Turkey ’s ancient city of Olympus is both just the tip of the ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

Archaeologists working at the necropolis of San Giuliano in Italy found a 2,600-year-old tomb untouched by looters, photos ...

The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.

Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved ...

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...

While somber, their remains and burial goods are helping experts better understand class, gender, and parenting dynamics of late Neolithic society known as the Corded Ware Culture. The discoveries are ...

Fort Laurens State Memorial, 11067 Fort Laurens Road, Bolivar, is sponsoring a series of Public Archaeology Days during the upcoming months. The free public event runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on July ...

Three Bronze Age cremations have been discovered underneath a popular playing field, as volunteer archaeologists resume ...