Norway began work on Friday to excavate the first Viking ship to be unearthed in the country in more than a century, with experts hoping it will shed light on the era of the Nordic seafarers.
Read moreArchaeologists announced Friday they have discovered the oldest known evidence of bow and arrow use, as well as ancient clothing material just outside of Africa in the tropical regions of Sri Lanka, challenging the traditional methods of investigating early human cultural development.
Read moreThe University of California failed to comply with state and federal rules on returning Native American human remains and cultural objects, resulting in inconsistent dealings with tribes that delay repatriation of their artifacts, according to a California State Auditor report released Thursday.
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The Greek Culture Ministry said Wednesday it would seek the repatriation from New York of a 2,700-year-old bronze horse statuette which it says was illegally exported from Greece, after a U.S. court rejected an auction house’s bid to proceed with the sale of the artifact.
Read moreArchaeologists recently discovered the oldest known instance of East Asian three-dimensional art while excavating a spoil heap from a well dug in Lingjing, Henan, China.
Read moreArcheologists announced Monday they have produced the first high-resolution mapping of an entire Roman city in Italy buried miles beneath the surface without ever breaking ground.
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At first, researchers thought an unassuming stretch of elevated cattle ranching land in rural Southern Mexico was just a naturally occurring plateau. Then they took a closer look.
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MADRID (AFP) — Forensic experts will begin testing 15 skeletons uncovered at an ancient Spanish chapel this week to see
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Archaeologists have briefly revealed a well-preserved mosaic floor of an ancient Roman villa first discovered almost a century ago near the northern Italian city of Verona.
Read moreA federal judge has cleared the way for salvagers to recover the Marconi wireless telegraph machine that broadcasted distress calls from the Titanic before the doomed ocean liner plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic over a hundred years ago, leaving more than 1,500 dead in icy waters.
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Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday exhibited a recently uncovered, unusual series of 2,000-year-old chambers carved out of the bedrock beneath the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem.
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The signs and markings we leave throughout our daily lives are often an afterthought. But put together all that evidence tells a story — even thousands of years later.
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A New Hampshire family hiking close to home during the coronavirus pandemic made quite the discovery — a stone crypt from the 1850s.
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North Carolina’s Office of State Archaeology received a donated piece of driftwood last week that was collected by a beachgoer decades ago and could date back to the Civil War-era, according to experts.
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Peru unveiled a priceless manuscript containing the memoirs of former Inca leaders that had disappeared during Chile’s occupation of Lima during the 1879-84 Pacific War.
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An ancient tomb thought to belong to Rome’s founder Romulus was presented to the world on Friday, after months of investigation by history sleuths.
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Scientists have uncovered a great deal of animal remains in the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya, providing important information about the human inhabitants from the Holocene period who lived in what is now the Sahara Desert.
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Europeans could include the issue of stolen cultural artifacts, especially Greek or Roman antiquities, in negotiations on their future relationship with Britain, according to the latest draft of the EU negotiating mandate.
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What’s the difference between accidentally being buried by rocks in a cave-in, and intentionally being buried in a ceremony? Archaeologists have been searching for the answers in one Iraqi cave for more than half a century.
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Scientists announced findings Wednesday that dinosaurs and relatives of mammals managed to survive in a “land of fire” at the beginning of a mass extinction event more than 180 million years ago.
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