Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers including scholars from Brown University have unearthed a buried alta ...

A team of Polish archaeologists has been credited with one of the most extraordinary finds in recent memory in Peru.

A vivid digital reconstruction has brought to life the face of a Mycenaean woman who lived over 3,500 years ago, offering an unusually poignant glimpse into the world of ancient Greece, from long befo ...

French archaeological mission, composed of experts from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, France’s National Center for ...

Five thousand years ago, Bronze Age societies in Mesopotamia constructed elaborate stone tombs filled with remarkable grave ...

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a ...

Neil Carlin, Catherine J. Frieman and Jessica Smyth/The ConversationIn County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne.

Recently declassified CIA files have unveiled a long-standing and little-known chapter of post-WWII history: a covert operation to track down Adolf Hitler, 10 years after he was presumed dead.

In an announcement that has generated a storm of controversy, a team of Italian and Scottish researchers claims to have made ...

For nearly a century, the 1,400-year old Sutton Hoo burial site has provided an intriguing window into Britain's Anglo-Saxon ...

From the human perspective, maggots are thoroughly disgusting, and when meat is infested with them it means it is spoiled and ...

During routine renovations of a Vienna soccer field in October, construction crews stumbled upon an astonishing find: an ancient mass grave filled with intertwined skeletal remains, from what were cle ...