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

There are many mysteries concerning the ancient Greek world, including the identity of some of its most illustrious members ...

Austrian ruins previously known as the Desolate Castle were actually once a Roman bridgehead fort. The site served as a strategic trade crossing for the Danube River as part of the historic Amber Road ...

Using advanced drone-deployed LiDAR and ground penetrating radar technologies, researchers from Macedonia’s Institute and ...

Archaeologists in Oman uncovered a 4,000-year-old musical instrument, a pair of copper cymbals, in the ruins of an ancient ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The effort is revealing new clues and unraveling historical mysteries, though the task is not without its challenges. "Urban archaeology is a whole other world compared to rural archaeology," said ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered what could be the oldest known rock carvings made by humans likely over 200,000 years old – a find that could transform our understanding of human presence in ...

“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 ...