A woman once celebrated as "Britain's first black woman" was actually a local girl from southern England with blonde hair and ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...

A jewelry donation to a thrift store in Canada has turned out to potentially be a lot older than meets the eye. Now, a group ...

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a statement on the research. “This framework better explains existing genetic, ...

From St. Augustine to New York, explore America's oldest cities where colonial history, architecture, and modern life ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

In Pennsylvania, the foundations of a treasure linked to a robbery committed by the Doan Gang during the Revolutionary War.

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

The island of Cyprus carries a long history mirrored through archaeological sites scattered in between its cities and the countryside.

The site where the earliest known human-made fire was discovered was the "perfect location" for early humans, a researcher ...

The Independent reports that archaeologists have discovered infant skeletons from the Roman period bearing significant "negative health markers," pointing to widespread suffering among urban ...