POMPEII, ITALY—It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the ...

She and her colleagues found no gunpowder residue inside the gun barrel, suggesting that it was not fired in the course of ...

An underwater archaeologist documents a 2,500-year-old shipwreck discovered off the southern tip of Sicily. An iron anchor ...

Medieval roasting hearth and oven base, Oxford, England. OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, archaeologists have ...

Tile floor repaired with bones, Alkmaar, The Netherlands. ALKMAAR, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a report in the NL Times, ...

Scientists at the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA) have analyzed an 1,800-year-old silver artifact discovered in a ...

A Portuguese shipwreck found near the coastal Kenyan town of Malindi in 2013 may be a ship from one of Portuguese explorer ...

The 2,000-year-old tomb of a Roman soldier—including evidence of his name—has been discovered in the city of Heerlen, ...

This was a center of unparalleled creativity during the seventh and eighth centuries a.d. Thrilling discoveries in 2024 ...

A mural in the home of Lucas Asicona in the small Guatemalan city of Chajul depicts a dwarf carrying a long stick, two ...

According to a statement released by the University of York, researchers have retraced the genetic origins of hardy and ...

These individual finds began to create a picture of an enormous, previously unknown necropolis that the team eventually ...