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

Recent evidence has emerged that challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of the first Americans. Instead of walking ...

The archaeologists that found the stone-paved chamber, located inside a hilltop fort in Scotland, still aren’t sure exactly ...

Researchers have discovered a large 5,000-year-old temple in northern Iraq, at the Kani Shaie site in Sulaymaniyah province.

Plans to raise £50m to protect York's historic buildings, collections and archaeological sites have been approved amid ...

We didn’t find anything,” the state archaeologist says. “We just saw an area where there is the potential for archaeological ...

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

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...

The developer hired a company to conduct an archaeological investigation on the property, but an independent review by a separate local archaeological firm has found the work to be incomplete.

A remarkable discovery in Crete has reinvigorated debate over the origins behind the ancient Greek myth of the labyrinth.

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

Pre-construction archaeological work at Benin City, Nigeria. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin ...