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 ...

Located in the northern Sinai Desert, the site is shedding new light on defensive structures built to protect Egypt's eastern borders ...

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...

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 ...

Once a Roman trading hub on the Rhine, Augusta Raurica is Switzerland's largest archeological park and continue to produce ...

The findings shed light on the ancient people who lived in western Hungary, whose identity continues to confound scholars.

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 ...