For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary fortress ci ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered and deciphered in Cambridge and revealed to contain thrilling ...

In an announcement that has generated a storm of controversy, a team of Italian and Scottish researchers claims to have made ...

The location of a golden chest believed to hold the original version of the Ten Commandments has long been a mystery, with ...

For nearly a century, the 1,400-year old Sutton Hoo burial site has provided an intriguing window into Britain's Anglo-Saxon past.

Five thousand years ago, Bronze Age societies in Mesopotamia constructed elaborate stone tombs filled with remarkable grave goods and evidence of human sacrifice on a significant scale.

A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority, working alongside the Ministry of Heritage and with the support of volunteers from across the country, has made an extraordinary discove ...

The 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb stands as one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds of the 20th ...

In what is being described as a rare and exciting find, archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a 3,200-year-old tomb that ...

From the human perspective, maggots are thoroughly disgusting, and when meat is infested with them it means it is spoiled and needs to be thrown away immediately.

More and more discoveries are revealing the creative capacities and impressive intelligence of archaic human ancestors, who ...

One of the most iconic moments in both Christianity and Judaism involves the miraculous parting of the Red Sea, allowing ...