Why so many Roman coin hoards end up being buried and never found has baffled archaeologists for decades. A major new study has shown that the non-recovery of these hoarded treasures was caused by ...

Archaeologists in the Dutch city of Nijmegen have made an extraordinary discovery: the largest Roman bathhouse complex ever found in the Netherlands. Unearthed in the Waalfront district, an area ...

Excavations beside the River Suir in southeastern Ireland, archaeologists are unearthing what is believed to be the largest Viking settlement ever discovered in the country. The site at Woodstown, ...

For most of modern history, this architectural quirk was ignored. But over the last decade, it has become the visual anchor for one of the most sprawling, rapidly growing, and visually compelling ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

Analysis of ancient proteins extracted from the fossilized teeth of Homo naledi has revealed a startling new twist in the ongoing mystery of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. Researchers have ...

A remarkably preserved bronze sword dating back around 2,700 years has been unearthed in a forest near Gdańsk, Poland. The find offers archaeologists a rare opportunity to investigate how prestigious ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an extraordinary artifact during their excavation of the ancient Tartessian settlement of Casas del Turuñuelo in Guareña, Spain. The artifact - an incredibly rare ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Syedra in Turkey's Mediterranean region have uncovered a spectacular 1,800-year-old Roman stadium, revealing new insights into the sporting and cultural ...

Archaeologists examining an approximately 6,200-year-old skull uncovered at a Copper Age site identified a series of injuries on the skull matching to a young adult male. The wounds were most ...