Teams have now re-examined the 2000-year-old skeleton and its DNA with new techniques. Analysis revealed she was around 18 to ...

Thomas Muir, who led the excavation said: “The discovery of a Bronze Age Barrow and an earlier Neolithic pit group was a ...

In a new Apostolic Letter commemorating the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, ...

These Anglo-Saxon accessories were recovered from the side of a hill in England and may be from a hoard, a ritual deposit or ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Evidence of feasting in the Hebrides 5,000 years ago and the discovery of a lost medieval settlement in the Borders have been ...

Traces of Stone Age feasts, a Roman battle in the hills of southern Scotland, and an amulet once thought to be imbued with magical powers have been revealed among the most tantalising archaeological ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.

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“It should be emphasized that it was on Ostrów Lednicki that the oldest Christian liturgical objects ever found in Poland ...

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about ...

Archeologists say they have finally cracked the 6,000-year-old mystery of Armenia’s “dragon stones" – massive carved ...