Archaeologists in Budapest have unearthed a well-preserved Roman sarcophagus, revealing insights into the life of a young ...

Residents abandoned Nya Lödöse in 1624, moving to the more strategic location of Gothenburg, which has now grown to over one million residents.

For decades, a sealed basement room sat untouched beneath an unremarkable building, its existence known to only a few and its ...

The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.

A University of Glasgow archaeology student on her first dig in August discovered a trove of ancient coins under a fireplace in Glen Coe, Scotland. Believed to have once belonged to a highland chief, ...

Retired senior state archaeologist Breck Parkman used artifacts found in old ruins or the chemistry of rocks to piece ...

Underwater archaeologist and author David Gibbins discusses his new book about shipwrecks around the world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

A new look at the 13th-century Stone of Destiny reveals mysterious markings and other 'anomalies' that previously went unnoticed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, one of the great-great-grandfathers ofmodern science, wrote that “nature loves to hide.” In other words, understanding the workings of the natural world is ...

Archaeologists from the Budapest History Museum made the significant discovery during extensive excavations in Óbuda, a northern district of the city that once formed part of Aquincum, a bustling ...

This is an example of stone age writing which an amateur archaeologist was the first to decodeWikicommons An amateur archaeologist has decoded what experts describe as "the first known writing in the ...