The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

On a windswept ridge overlooking the plains of northern Oman, a pair of ancient cymbals lay buried beneath layers of plaster ...

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, according to a recently published study.

Archaeologists in Vienna, Austria, uncovered a significant find: a Roman mass grave from the first century A.D., located ...

The blue glass beads from Venice journeyed around 10,000 miles to the Americas more than five centuries ago and were the size ...

Proof of an ancient garden, consistent with biblical scripture, has emerged at the holiest site in Christianity — and an ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...