Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Archaeology, the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts, often unearths enigmatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of the past. These ...

In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed field and received a signal. What he unearthed over the following days would ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across North America are challenging our understanding of the continent’s prehistoric past. From the arid Southwest to the coastal regions, these finds reveal a rich ...

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