Archaeologists in Norway uncover a Viking Age burial where scallop shells were placed on a woman’s mouth. Experts explore the ...

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

In the fourth century BCE, mysterious raiders attacked a Danish island. Now we might finally know where they came from.

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

Researchers employed cutting-edge techniques including microwear analysis and Reflective Transformation Imaging to examine figurines housed at the Swedish History Museum, reports Archaeology Magazine.

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

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

"In today's fast-paced world, there is a tendency to forget and to consume images and words without reflecting on their ...

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

The Hjortspring boat carried warriors on an attempted attack of a Danish island over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have new ...

The Vatican released Pope Leo's apostolic letter "on the importance of archaeology," Dec. 11, "on the occasion of the ...