Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or ...

PEERING back 2,000 years to the age of Jesus isn’t exactly easy – but rare objects from those times solve the mystery of what ...

the king to whom the burial chamber belonged remains a mystery, but Wegner’s goal is to one day identify the ruler to help anchor him within the historical timeline. “With archaeology you hope ...

David Keys is The Independent’s archaeology correspondent. "In many respects the Vikings were the medieval equivalent of organized crime," says Simon Keynes, a professor of Anglo-Saxon history ...

The mystery surrounding the discovery of ... and their significance for archaeological and historical research is enormous.” Research into what is written on the papyrus documents hasn’t ...

Archaeological crews from the Charleston Museum, alongside students from the College of Charleston, were busy excavating the ...

In the Guerrero mountains of southern Mexico, cave guide Adrián Beltrán Dimas and Russian speleologist Yekaterina Katiya Pavlova discovered a hidden room in Tlayócoc cave. They found centuries-old ...

Researchers identified walking impairment and malarial disease sustained by Tutankhamun, supported by the discovery of canes ...

The head, possibly depicting Jupiter, Apollo, Serapis, or a philosopher, was found reused in the Basilica of Santo Stefano.

Archaeologists in the Judean Desert have unearthed a "mysterious pyramid-shaped structure ... here is one of the richest and most intriguing archaeological excavations ever found in the Judean ...

“It is an enthralling historical mystery,” the directors said in ... “The Judean Desert survey is one of the most important archaeological operations ever undertaken in the State of Israel ...