The project includes the UNESCO heritage site Göbeklitepe – "Potbelly Hill" in Turkish – which is home to the oldest known ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Seven remarkably preserved footprints in an ancient lakebed represent the oldest evidence of human presence in the Middle ...

Archaeologists discovered the remains of a 5,500-year-old wildcat, placing the species on Irish soil almost 4,000 years ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

By Ceyda Caglayan SANLIURFA, Turkey (Reuters) -Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in ...

During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

A previously unknown medieval castle has emerged from the Swiss landscape after a researcher studying high-resolution terrain maps identified telltale features of an early fortification near ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the last 50 years – from secret Maya pyramids and fascinating fossils to ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

This stuff is older than Stonehenge.

Archaeological research once again dispells the widespread belief that our Paleolithic ancestors were primarily meat-eaters, ...