After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

Elderly and ailing, a potter named Georges-André Colas penned a six-page letter to the Regional Archaeological Service of Burgundy in October 2008. “Dear Sir or Madam, although I am aware of the ...

Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...

Tour operators can help you rent a kayak or hire a motorboat from the Albanian town of Pustec to get to Maligrad and several shoreside cave-hewn churches where Christian hermits once dwelled. For more ...

Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...

ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have ...

ZME Science reports that some 270,000 beads made of scallop and cockle shells, stones, and animal bones have been found in a Copper Age grave at the Montelirio Tholos site in southwestern Spain by a ...

New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...