Science News Today reports that archaeologists excavating a Copper Age cemetery in western Iran recently noticed the unusual skull of a young woman among the burials. Her elongated and cone-shaped ...

Israeli archaeologists working at a site outside of Caesarea uncovered an exquisitely carved marble sarcophagus that had been buried for nearly 1,700 years, according to a statement released by the ...

Last year, excavations in Chichester’s Priory Park revealed a masonry causeway and bridge that would have once led to the ...

Construction workers clearing rubble from destroyed houses in Maarat al-Numan revealed the entrance to a mysterious ...

During excavation of a gravel pit on the shores of the Yonne River in 1966, workers uncovered the foundations of a Roman ...

According to the East Anglian Daily Times, the team recently unearthed hundreds of earthen pits, a discovery which has ...

A new lidar survey of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula revealed evidence of extensive farming by Native Americans that has stunned ...

Once you get to that spot, you emerge into a clearing where there is this classicizing temple, and you feel like you have ...

More than a century after Norway's Gokstad ship burial was first excavated, scientists are examining the remains of the ...

In 1983, archaeological divers located the wooden framework of a structure at the bottom of the River Wear in Shincliffe, ...

Aerial view of Zanj irrigation system, Basra, Iraq BASRA, IRAQ—The Shatt al-Arab floodplain outside of Basra is marked with thousands of manmade earthen ridges and canals. Archaeologists have ...

DRUMANAGH, IRELAND—Last year, Irish archaeologists working at a fort on the Drumanagh promontory north of Dublin uncovered a 2,000-year-old charred fig, the oldest evidence of the exotic ...