A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

The discovery of 2,000 year-old olive trees and grapevines are believed to reflect the Gospel of John's account of where Jesus was buried ...

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen ...

Archaeologist Jósef Szykulski concluded that the group associated with the mass grave at El Curaca won the battle, as the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that could change our understanding of Neolithic Britain. The Flagstones burial site, located in Dorset, England, has been re-dated to approximately 3,200 BC ...

Below Psamtik’s burial niche was a room filled with ... Far more than a local cemetery, says Price, it became a pilgrimage site, “like an ancient Mecca or Lourdes,” attracting visitors ...

In the green hills of southwest Britain, a quiet revolution took place over 5,000 years ago. Long before Stonehenge rose from ...

A 3,000-year-old necropolis has been uncovered in the Al Ain region of Abu Dhabi, marking the “ first major Iron Age cemetery ...

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of ...

Archaeologists have discovered over 100 horse skeletons from Roman times, dating back to the 2nd century AD. These horse ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

The burial site was located almost 23 feet beneath Abydos ... miles south of Cairo and roughly six miles from the Nile River. Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served as the burial ...