Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

A monumental archaeological discovery in northern China is reshaping what we know about early human settlement and society.

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

In the summer of 1976, a ground fire burned through a vegetated area on the island of Guernsey, revealing a granite slab protruding from a high mound of earth. The ensuing excavation revealed an ...

Archaeologists discovered roughly 345 standing stone circles in Saudi Arabia using aerial surveys. Experts believe the 7,000-year-old structures were once houses, complete with doorways and roofs. The ...

High in the Peruvian Andes, where clouds cling to steep slopes and moss drapes every branch, archaeologists have mapped more ...

I visited Stonehenge for the first time a little more than a year ago, and as I strolled around the ancient monument, I overheard an elderly American gentleman grumble to his companion that “this was ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

The mysterious alignments of standing stones scattered across Brittany in France have intrigued archaeologists and tourists alike for centuries. Now, fresh discoveries at the Le Plasker site near ...

Archaeologists have discovered dozens of ancient "stone grenades" along the iconic Great Wall of China, according to a report. Researchers made the find in the ruins of a building located in a section ...

A recent excavation has unearthed 12 human skeletons and a chamber of grave offerings near Petra’s Treasury building, a UNESCO World Heritage site. By Ali Watkins By the time Dr. Richard Bates swept ...

ALULA, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Results of two recent archaeological excavations supported by the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) demonstrate that the Neolithic inhabitants of ...