Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The project includes the UNESCO heritage site Göbeklitepe – "Potbelly Hill" in Turkish – which is home to the oldest known ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

The discovery of the first Terracotta Army pit in 1974 in the city of Xi’an, China was monumental in the sense that it gave archaeologists an intimate look into life in ancient China. Extremely ...

Recent archaeological discoveries have unveiled evidence of a once-thriving island empire that was previously unknown to modern historians. The findings have left archaeologists worldwide astounded, ...

The National Museum of Romania's History will celebrate the European Heritage Days on Friday, on which occasion the public will be presented with the new archaeological discoveries made in the second ...

Thanks to the creative application of new technologies, the 2020s are quietly shaping up to be a golden age of archaeology. Analysis of ancient DNA has resolved long-debated questions about human ...

The detail carved into the sole of a shoe. Think about, said Seán O’Harrow, the attention craftsmen put into the famed Terracotta Warriors that they carved a realistic shoe sole on a statue of a ...

From ancient cities buried beneath the sands to mummies revealing new secrets, 2021 brought a wave of remarkable archaeological discoveries. This roundup highlights the most groundbreaking finds—from ...