Sunken finds in the South China Sea testify to rich trade networks used over hundreds of years. The sea routes brought ...

Assyrian cuneiform inscription, estimated to be 2,700 years old, offers rare evidence of official correspondence between the ...

The 5,000-year-old chambers, known as domus de janas, or "fairy houses", were found on the island of Sardinia, off the coast ...

From mysterious artifacts to unusual burial practices, here are 10 of the strangest archaeological facts ever uncovered! 1. The Ancient Egyptians Used Honey to Treat Wounds Over 4,000 years ago, ...

An archaeology student from the US state of Florida has discovered a rare 9th-century gold object during her first excavation in the UK. The student, Yara Souza, unearthed a gold medallion from the ...

As all these discoveries show, the land’s buried secrets have the power to transform our understanding of history, faith, and the human experience. Few places on Earth carry as much weight of history ...

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Archaeologists excavating near the Colosseum found a rare chunk of Egyptian blue pigment dating back about 2,000 years. Photo from Simona Murrone and the Colosseum Archaeological Park The summaries ...

During a recent visit to a local museum in southern England, a 9-year-old boy felt a pang of recognition. The small axes on display in the Worthing Museum’s Stone Age exhibition resembled something in ...

A GROUP of scientists in Argentina have unearthed a dinosaur egg so perfectly preserved that it looks like it was laid ...

In the last session, we looked at the basics of what archaeology is and how excavation is done. But why even bother doing archaeology? All that research and excavation is difficult, time consuming, ...