"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

The three tombs, which served as a family cemetery, were discovered in the city of Changzhi, Shanxi Province, China, and date ...

His championing of radiocarbon dating and other new scientific approaches demonstrated the untenability of the conventional ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare and substantial Egyptian blue ingot at Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea palace in Rome, ...

Blessed are you when you come in and blessed are you when you go out' are the words inscribed into preserved mosaic tiles on ...

Visitors will have a chance to get a close-up look at the project and watch archaeologists on site starting around March.

A team from the University of York uncovered a Roman-era cemetery in Cambridgeshire with a unique burial of a "high-status ...

A remarkable discovery of underground tunnels beneath Cusco’s historic district is offering fresh insights into Inca ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. We know about ...