The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

The Chester House Estate in Irchester, Northamptonshire, appeared on BBC Two's Digging for Britain earlier this month, with ...

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

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

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

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

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

Researchers discovered that Norway's Viking societies were more violent than Denmark's, with higher rates of weapon use and fatal injuries.

Archaeologists have discovered three beautifully decorated 650-year-old tombs packed with artefacts during excavations in ...

Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic graves and a children’s necropolis dating back over 2,000 years.

Make your family travels more inspiring this year, with new itineraries based around conservation, archaeology, cycling and ...

The remains of the deceased found in the burials may be more than 2,000 years old, according to archaeologists.