The Battle of Culloden marked the end of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and was the last pitched battle fought on British soil ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...

Experts said the discovery was “ground breaking” with new testing transforming understandings of the city’s medieval ...

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

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

Isotope and trace element analyses of human tissues provide archaeologists with unique opportunities to make unprecedented ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the remains of a teenage boy who died in ...

Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. But archaeologists have been puzzling over whether the artwork really shows the infamous ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

The use of AI in archaeology is advancing research on the Hittite civilization, offering deeper understanding of Anatolia’s ...

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, ...