There’s something profoundly captivating about the phrase “lost to time.” Throughout history, countless treasures, cities, and secrets have vanished beneath layers of earth, sand, and water—or simply ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

A series of millennia-old canoes are being unearthed from the bottom of a lake in Wisconsin, spurring a renewed interest in ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

Divers uncovered a skeleton within Mexico's underwater cave system, offering rare clues about ancient rituals and early Yucatán settlers.

Archaeologists resume excavations at the ancient Greek Gymnasium in Agrigento, Italy, uncovering new details about its ...

Original photograph of the artefact published in 1927 by Guy Brunton (left) and the actual artefact, photo by Martin Odler Guy Brunton/Martin Odler Production of this article included the use of AI.

Once again, it has been great year for archeology and historical research. Groundbreaking discoveries were made all over the globe, from Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and the ruins of Pompeii to the ...

In 1996, after gaining permission from the Greek government, Hale and De Boer made their first expedition to Delphi. They ...

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

Archaeology has its quiet days, and then it has weeks where everything gets interesting at once, and those are the moments that make people fall in love with it. From an ancient book of psalms found ...