archaeology

CAIRO—Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old brewery that could produce thousands of liters of beer in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, Egypt's tourism and antiquities ministry said. The site in ...

Archeologists in Spain have discovered a 5,000-year-old crystal dagger dating all the way back to prehistoric civilizations. Not ...

LESBOS, Greece—Greek scientists on the volcanic island of Lesbos say they have found a rare fossilized tree whose ...

Imagine finding out that an ordinary-looking rock you’ve been using as a stepping stone is actually an ancient ...

Archeologists have uncovered a rare, delicate Roman mosaic that dates all the way back to the mid-5th Century ...

A mysterious metal monolith has been found standing out in the remote Utah desert, and the strange installation ...

More than a century after it was dispatched via carrier pigeon, a secret military message has been found ...

EMBDEN, Maine—A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of ...

TOKYO — Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to ...

LONDON—Four bones found on a beach on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast, belong to a ...

LONDON—An amateur treasure-hunter has uncovered one of the most significant Bronze Age hoards ever found in Scotland, including ...

Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, has puzzled the world for centuries, yet scientists think they have finally solved at ...

MOSCOW—Russian scientists are working to retrieve the well-preserved skeleton of a woolly mammoth, which has some ligaments still ...

SYDNEY—Australia's first underwater archaeological sites off its west coast dating to more than 7,000 years ago will help ...

LONDON—Archaeologists have discovered a wide circle of deep pits surrounding an ancient settlement near Stonehenge, opening up new ...

A 2,200-year-old long-lost ancient temple linked to Pharaoh Ptolemy IV has been discovered by Archaeologists in Egypt, according ...

Researchers have revealed new evidence suggesting what happened on the day the dinosaurs went extinct. A new study ...

PARIS—The thigh bone of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French paleontologists at an excavation site ...

One of the "best-preserved" Columbus-era ships to be discovered in modern times—complete with swivel guns and a bilge ...

A huge Stone Age settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem may have been home to 3,000 people, the Neolithic equivalent ...

Archaeologists have discovered an undisturbed Roman shipwreck loaded with ancient-era products, the study of which is expected to ...

GOLD COAST, Australia—Fossilized dinosaur remains recovered from an opal mine in the Australian Outback have been found to be from ...

A historian recently decoded a 15th-century manuscript that's considered to be the world's most mysterious text. Researchers, however, ...

A bird thought to have evolved away from being flightless thousands of years ago is once again unable to ...

Valuable artefacts and mummies that date back two millennia were uncovered in southern Egypt, authorities confirmed on April ...