“We hadn’t expected to discover a funerary monument of this age and size here,” said Prof. Mathias Pfeil, curator general of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. “The tomb was both a ...

The exploration involved around 200 volunteers who worked as part of the Community Archaeology Program Northern Ireland ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

Finding a fragment where the tip was clearly resharpened was exciting, said study first author Francesco d'Errico, a ...

Buried during the Stone Age, this woman once roamed the forests of northern Sweden. Now archaeologists have reconstructed her ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

Archaeologists say a hilltop settlement near Perth thrived during the Iron Age before mysteriously fading away - possibly ...

Archaeologists led by University of Missouri professor Marcello Mogetta have uncovered a massive stone-lined water basin in the ancient Roman city of Gabii, just eleven miles east of Rome. Built ...

Archaeologists in eastern Norway have made a remarkable discovery that illuminates the sophisticated craftsmanship of our Stone Age ancestors. During an excavation in Horten, where forest land will ...

Easter Island is famous for its giant monumental statues, called moai, built some 800 years ago and typically mounted on platforms called ahu. Scholars have puzzled over the moai on Easter Island for ...

A bit over an hour into Queens of the Stone Age’s concert Friday night, Oct. 3, at Detroit’s Fox Theatre, frontman Josh Homme provided some context for the unusual exposition that was taking place on ...