A person digging for fishing worms near a Swedish summer cottage recently discovered a medieval silver hoard containing up to ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently uncovered an ancient fortress that was built along the historic military road referenced in ...

An excavation at Oxford University has yielded ancient book clasps, medieval pens and imported fish bones, offering ...

When you think of ancient Egypt, you might imagine towering pyramids, majestic temples, and the noseless Great Sphinx of Giza ...

Archaeologists excavating some ruins in Turkey unearthed five loaves of Communion bread from 1,200 years ago, officials said. Photo from the Karaman Governorate The summaries below were drafted with ...

From Roman curse tablets to severed heads on Iberian walls and a decapitated bog body in Ireland—these are the most chilling ...

Scientists say seven skeletons found in a mass grave in Croatia were most likely Roman soldiers who lived 1,700 years ago.

A history buff set out to discover the location of two mysterious features marked on an 1850s Ordnance Survey map.

Picky, pragmatic, and enigmatic — a tiny fossil found in Southwestern Virginia eluded classification for more than 514 million years. Now, Virginia Tech geoscientists have restored this unique ...

Imagine digging into a quiet village field and finding signs of a whole city that existed more than 2,000 years ago. That’s what happened in Keeladi — a small village near Madurai that is now ...

An ancient pill from China used for more than 800 years to treat depression could be  more effective than modern medicine, a ...

Nearly all of Florida’s Acropora coral colonies are now dead, a dramatic downfall linked to a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023.