Researchers say atmospheric blasts could explain mass extinctions and the sudden cooling of the climate at the beginning of ...

Archaeologists say they've unexpectedly found a huge Stone Age cremation pyre in southern-central Africa. The discovery is helping them understand the history of cremation.

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African foragers, either living or ancient. The earliest evidence of burned human ...

The sturdy, well-built structure was likely constructed on dry land at a time when sea levels were much lower than they are ...

A newly exposed stretch of fortification in Jerusalem has given archaeologists a rare, almost cinematic glimpse of how an ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

Paleontologists have discovered the first known fossilized bee nests built inside ancient bones, uncovered in a cave that ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into ...

The mission known as Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo, located in Jackson County, Texas, was thought to have been lost. The ...

Excavations beneath the Western Wall Plaza uncovered a rock-hewn mikveh, or ritual bath, dating to the final days of the ...

Archaeologists in Mexico discovered a rare 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull, revealing ancient cranial modification practices ...

The discoveries mean that the boat is one of the largest and most intact ancient wooden shipwrecks ever found in the country.