From Shakespeare’s notes to a 3D scan of the Titanic, here are the most exciting historical discoveries of the previous year.

Seven thousand years ago, people living on the Atlantic edge of Europe built a massive wall of stone where land met water.

The story of a “lost” village sounds like folklore until a trowel hits something solid. Across riverbanks, wind farms and ...

Lost cities, missing tombs, and unexplained occurrences. History still holds unanswered questions for these seven events.

A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

Volunteers have cleared undergrowth at Worlebury Camp to reveal a dramatic view over Weston-super-Mare seafront.

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...