With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

Many of Egypt’s most precise artifacts appear in the earliest periods of its history, not the later ones. This backward progression raises the possibility of inherited technology. Researchers now ...

For more than a century, researchers have documented physical evidence in Egypt that does not match the tools officially ...

Deep in the heart of northern Zambia, an astonishing archaeological find is reshaping our understanding of early human history. Hidden beneath the powerful ...

In an extraordinary archaeological breakthrough, a team of researchers has uncovered a wooden structure dating back 476,000 years at Kalambo Falls in northern ...

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Often archaeologists dig beneath the earth to learn about the past; however, there is another place that holds objects that ...

We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...

When we think of Venetian glass, our minds leap to the blazing furnaces of Murano, to delicate filigree and the vivid colors ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...