Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

The Bronze Age Boat Discoveries exhibition at Must Farm includes not only the three preserved vessels but also replica tools, interactive displays, and demonstrations of ancient craft techniques.

Scientists are unraveling the secrets of a Bronze Age hoard containing jewelry that is thought to have been buried around 3,000 years ago. The hoard was discovered in Rosemarkie, a village in the ...

The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.

It's linked to the religious figure of Abraham, who Christianity, Judaism, and Islam all trace their origins to.

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One of the most famous facades in all the world has been concealing a deep secret. Underneath the iconic and intricately carved Treasury building at the center of the renowned archaeological site ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s surface are stone structures carved with precision that doesn’t match the accepted timeline. These ...

During the 4th dynasty of the Pharaohs in Egypt, nearly 5000 years ago, a people emerged from the mists of pre-history to complete the most ambitious and spectacular undertaking ever attempted by ...

Surprisingly, the walls of Windmill Way also reveal snippets of information about ancient string use. The shelter’s rock surfaces are adorned with vivid painted motifs, some of which show dillybags.

While excavating a palace at the site of Megiddo in northern Israel in the 1930s, a team of University of Chicago archaeologists uncovered a small ceramic jug containing 44 silver objects. The ...

Thousands of shipwrecks lie in the 4,080 square miles of the Bay and its feeder waters. The archaeologists, divers, and other ...