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

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend ...

The long American century is over. Across the world, affiliations and institutions staked in blood and soil, faith-based (as ...

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

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how they perceived the passage of time Vanessa Crooks The latest stages of ...

Of the entire bouquet of stone structures discovered, the most prominent feature is a wall measuring 394 feet.

Ross Larue lives within a mile of the future Anduril site, and he’s hoping the area’s history will make Madison Township ...

The tropical rainforest of the Congo basin is the world’s second-largest. (The Amazon is slightly bigger, but far better studied.) Via the Congo river, water drains into the Atlantic largely from six ...

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.

Researchers in northwestern Cambodia have carried out the largest airborne laser-scanning archaeological project to date. They used lidar to survey 900 square miles of the densely forested Angkor ...