Archaeologists to reveal secrets of Welsh castle’s hidden cave that was once home to a hippo - The cave is rapidly emerging ...

A scholar reinterpreting historical and archaeological evidence in present-day Switzerland believes the Helvetians retained ...

Archaeological excavations in modern-day Spain have revealed a Byzantine-era fort complete with a church that was once used ...

The 'rubbish' left behind at a deserted medieval village in an isolated area of Yorkshire could hold clues about how societies achieve long-term 'green' prosperity, according to new research. The ...

This is the first evidence we have of structured human engagement with the concepts of chance and randomness.” ...

Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once stood a Bronze Age settlement that may have served as a center of exchange and power around 1600 BC. The settlement — called Semiyarka ...

A recent archaeological discovery suggests a major cultural milestone: the onset of naturalistic depictions of people with animals around 12,000 years ago, almost three thousand years earlier than ...

Scientists decoded DNA from millennia-old lentils preserved in volcanic rock silos on Gran Canaria. The findings show that today’s Canary Island lentils largely descend from varieties brought from ...

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in ...