Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...

The approximately 9,000-year-old grave of the shaman from Bad Dürrenberg (Saalekreis district) is one of the most spectacular ...

The discovery site at East Farm, Barnham, England lies hidden within a disused clay pit tucked away in the wooded landscape between Thetford and Bury St Edmunds. Professor Nick Ashton from the British ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

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 ...

An archaeological team started tracing zigzagging bricks and realized they had discovered the 3,400-year-old “lost golden ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the ...

Swedish archaeologists recently uncovered remnants of a forgotten 16th-century city beneath modern-day Gothenburg.

Archaeologists at Mleiha open a 20-pound jar containing 409 silver coins, revealing Hellenistic-Arab ambition and power.

Greece launches AmphiPoly, a project to digitally restore the original polychromy and iconography of the Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis.

Learn more about the creation of fire, and how new artifacts show that fire was used tens of thousands of years earlier than previously believed.