We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

Archaeologists recently discovered a massive 2,000-year-old stone basin in ancient Gabii, Italy, revealing early Roman public ...

Archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered an ancient Roman hospital that became a Christian sanctuary, revealing centuries ...

The seal is thought to be from the same time period when Assyria conquered Judah and made it a vassal state required to pay ...

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

Ix Ch'ak Ch'een reigned over the city of Cobá in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Historians didn't know her name before they ...

The International Space Station is one of the most remarkable achievements of the modern age. It is the largest, most complex ...

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

During a routine water retention project in the Bavarian countryside at Wolkertshofen in Germany, archaeologists spent the ...

Excavations in Benin, Nigeria, have uncovered a record of the Kingdom, revealing royal quarters, shrines, and layers from the ...

A Yup'ik community near the Bering Sea in southwest Alaska was spared the widespread devastation other communities ...