I n August 1939, just a few weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, a scattering of ivory mammoth fragments was ...

Digging down into the Earth, they hit a statue of what they first assumed to be the Buddha. Investigations by archaeologists ...

These ancient structures still stand - but the people who built them remain a mystery that history can’t fully explain.

Kaundinya is a “stitched ship”, built by stitching wooden planks with coir rope, and was part of Indian Ocean trade around ...

Journey across tens of thousands of years in Deep Time Journeys: A Cross-Continental Look at Early Human Archaeology, a webinar that uncovers the sweeping story of our earliest ancestors. Led by ...

Earliest evidence of humans making fire discovered in Suffolk Excavations at East Farm, Barnham, have uncovered the ...

How did colonial science reshape Indian self-understanding? From Vivekananda and Vedic science to 'Hindu Chemistry' and Jamia ...

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 ...

Off the coast of Marseille, National Geographic Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau hauled up thousands of ancient clay vessels—and showed what fantastic discoveries modern scuba gear made possible. This ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life in the citadel. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of ...

The discovery of a long-lost mission site has led to new historical insights that bridge Jackson County in Texas with 18th-century Spain. Archaeologists from Texas Tech University and the Texas ...

Pseudo-archaeology promotes dramatic claims unsupported by evidence, often replacing careful research with conspiracy theories and sensational narratives. Archaeologists and scholars explain how these ...