Archaeologists found evidence of a previously unknown Roman-era administrative center in present-day Switzerland. Experts believe this settlement was crucial for commerce and record-keeping—all part ...

For decades, a sealed basement room sat untouched beneath an unremarkable building, its existence known to only a few and its contents to no one. When it was finally opened, investigators stepped into ...

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have revealed a trove of coins, gold jewelry and other artifacts that date to about 2,500 years ago, during the region's Celtic period. According to a translated ...

A sarcophagus that contained the mummified remains of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Great is part of an exhibition that’s getting an extended run in Japan’s capital city. Ramses the Great and the Gold ...

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress. Archaeologists speculate that this recently found ancient Minoan ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archeology at Simon Fraser University in the spring of 2024. This email was from a thrift shop, Thrifty Boutique in ...

The ruins and relics left behind by ancient civilizations are more than just fragments of stone and metal; they are echoes of human stories that stretch across centuries. Temples overgrown by jungle, ...

Scientists in Spain analyzed the abandoned “ancient nests” of bone-eating vultures and found centuries-old artifacts, photos show. Photo from Sergio Couto via Margalida, Couto, Pinedo, Gil-Sánchez, ...

Archaeologists in Northern Ireland went out seeking a 400-year-old castle — and ended up finding things that are much older, thanks to the little kids working with them. In an October statement, Queen ...

Egypt recovered 36 ancient artifacts from the United States, authorities announced on Thursday, in the latest effort to reclaim its ancient heritage as tens of thousands of antiquities are believed to ...