Researchers have discovered the remains of a medieval village buried in the forests of northwestern Poland. Known as Stolzenberg, the town was likely built in the late 13th or early 14th century. It ...

They've currently found a minimum of 227 children, who were likely sacrificed as a ritualistic offering to appease the Chimú's moon god in hopes of better weather.

The sarcophagi inhabitants’ actual names are unknown, but these “chantresses of Amun” served a god whose cult ran strong even when Egypt was in turmoil.

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece and Rome.

Rome has unveiled a revamped piazza at the Colosseum, using new travertine marble to mark the spots where ancient columns ...

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as ...

Costa Rica’s proposed airport near Sierpe faces mounting delays as wetlands protection, UNESCO oversight, archaeological finds, land issues, and political uncertainty complicate the projec ...

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted theory that the people who made and used Clovis ...

Researchers revisited the 1970s discovery of ancient stone tools at Monte Verde—an iconic site in Chile that transformed our understanding of how and when humans arrived in the Americas.

The Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, discovered in the 1970s, revolutionized the thinking about when humans entered the Americas, with scientists calculating decades ​ago that this former ...

French archaeologists have discovered five new Gallic 'seated' burials at an excavation site in Dijon town centre. While barely 75 skeletons in this position have been found anywhere in the world, the ...