archaeology

Two shipwreck salvage companies have found what they believe are the remains of the famous Pulaski steamship off the coast of North Carolina. In 1838, the steamship sank to the ...

Until now, the tomb of Tutankhamun's teenage wife has eluded archaeologists who hope it may help unravel some ...

Experts analyzing the remnants of a pirate shipwreck announced a stunning discovery after linking several paper fragments found ...

Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Monday a 2,700-year-old clay seal impression which they said belonged to a biblical governor ...

Conclusive evidence of the existence of Noah's Ark has eluded ark hunters since time immemorial. The Bible says ...

Remains of a creature that looks very much like a dinosaur have been found in India. But it ...

WASHINGTON—Scientists have unearthed in New Zealand fossil bones of what might be the heavyweight champion of the penguin world, a ...

Archeologists who based their search on a 50-year-old photo rediscovered a more than 2,000-year-old geoglyph of a killer ...

Researchers are using a high-energy particle accelerator to peer inside the remains of an ancient Egyptian mummy, which ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered a mural on the floor of a Christian church in Israel with ...

A team of Turkish underwater explorers discovered amazingly preserved remains of a 3,000-year-old castle at the bottom of ...

Rock engravings discovered on the Arabian Peninsula might be the oldest images of dogs ever found—and they show ...

An archeological company investigating a Portuguese shipwreck has recovered what is believed to be the earliest navigation tool ...

A professor of archaeology at the University of Oxford discovered around 400 mysterious stone structures on and around ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 4,000-year-old wooden head they believe is of Egypt's 6th dynasty Queen, Ankhnespepy ...

Archaeologists say they have found an ancient mummy in Mongolia from 1,500 years ago in the Altai Mountains. ...

Researchers believe they have discovered the tomb of the saint responsible for the Santa Claus legend. It was ...

An odd finding was made inside a 4,000-year-old tomb in Israel: the decapitated bodies of at least nine ...

An ancient city possibly founded by Alexander the Great has been discovered in Iraq thanks to the release ...

One of the best-preserved mummies in the world isn't from Egypt or Peru but comes from Italy about ...

Archeologists in Norway have uncovered what they believe is a buried Viking boat with bones in it, leading them ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet was recently translated and might rewrite the history of math, suggesting that trigonometry may ...

Scientists assumed a few things about a Viking skeleton they excavated in the 1800s. The skeleton was buried ...

Staff at a Scottish museum are wrapping their heads around an "unbelievable incident" that occurred when a group ...

A 1,500-year-old mosaic floor with a Greek inscription has been uncovered during works to install communications cables in Jerusalem's Old ...

A female mummy with a full head of hair and eyelashes was discovered in what was previously thought ...

Researchers are trying to piece together the history of a stone slab that was found in Spain with ...