The identity of the Nephilim is one of the oldest debates in biblical studies. Some early Jewish texts like 1 Enoch describe them as monstrous offspring of heavenly beings and human women, towering ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed a trove of bullets at one of the most iconic battle sites in Scotland — shedding light on its final chaotic moments. The finds, made at Culloden Battlefield near ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...

Archaeologists in Northern Ireland went out seeking a 400-year-old castle — and ended up finding things that are much older, thanks to the little kids working with them. In an October statement, Queen ...

Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. Neanderthals 400,000 years ago were striking flints to make fires, researchers have found. An artist’s ...

Neanderthals were the world's first innovators of fire technology, tiny specks of evidence in England suggest. Flecks of pyrite found at a more than 400,000-year-old archaeological site in Suffolk, in ...

The Budapest History Museum found a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus during an excavation within the city. The coffin was still fully sealed, untouched by looters for centuries. The sarcophagus was ...

Remains of what was likely a funeral feast were discovered in a 4,000-year-old jug in Africa. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ...

Archaeologists have opened the lid on a rare, untouched Roman sarcophagus in Hungary — the first time it's been opened in 1,700 years. The tomb, discovered by archaeologists with the Budapest History ...