Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The unlikely researcher, George Smith, made one of archaeology's most sensational ... of inscription belonging to the first column of The Chaldean Account of the Deluge, as Smith first titled ...

And yet, despite a wealth of sources, including the excavation of multiple gladiator sites across Europe, archaeologists had never found direct evidence of these Roman fights between man and beast.

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion in ancient Rome. This discovery, published in ...

A large ancient Egyptian fortress in the northern Sinai Desert had an elaborate landscape of 500 trees leading to its ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

A key piece of evidence was a letter written by Reverend ... that would hinder the players' ability to compete. A team of archaeologists recently investigated the site and identified 14 large ...

Archaeological evidence that is unambiguously housing dates to more than 20,000 years ago—a time when large swaths of North America, Europe and Asia were covered in ice and humans had only ...

The fort, a redoubt with a moat, was found on private property during a routine archaeological review. Evidence suggests the rampart naturally eroded back into the moat over time and was later ...

Credit: N. Kress, A. Schmitt / Belgian School at Athens In the area called “Zone 9” of the cemetery, archaeologists found evidence of a unique ceremony. First, the people of Sissi buried their last ...

The Bible tells of a fateful encounter between an Egyptian Pharaoh and a King of Judah at "Armageddon". Archaeologists found ...

MEDZHIBOZH, UKRAINE—The oldest evidence of ivory toolmaking was recently identified at the Paleolithic site of Medzhibozh A in the Southern Bug River valley, according to Phys.org. Researchers ...