Archaeology News

Was the thick, intimidating Amazon forest once home to an advanced civilization? A group of archaeologists turn to the vegetated landscape for answers.

A group of people who lived nearly 2,000 years ago in Sudanese Nubia took doses of tetracycline -- through their beer.

One of paleontology's most revered fossil sites now has a baby brother.

It may be too late to RSVP for the world's first feast, which took place around 12,000 years ago. But take a look what's on the menu here.

Otzi, the mummy found in the Italian Alps, may have gotten a proper send-off, suggests new research.

The smell of freshly baked bread wafted through Egypt’s western desert more than 3,500 years ago, according to new findings at the El-Kharga Oasis announced on Wednesday. During excavation work for the Theban Desert Road Survey, a project to map ...

Several pieces of the world's oldest and largest unsolved jigsaw puzzle, a 2,200-year-old map of Rome made of thousands of marble fragments, could be unearthed next year following construction work for a new metro line near Rome's majestic forum area. ...

Small-brained human ancestors used stone tools to whack into large mammals 800,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Even though it isn't wired for broadband, this prehistoric domicile does have beds and even a fireplace.

Bulgarian archaeologists say they've unearthed the remains of the man who foretold the arrival of Jesus Christ.

A foot bone from a human that lived 67,000 years ago suggests settlers first arrived earlier than once thought.

A chariot that may have witnessed King Tutankhamun’s final moments is traveling outside Egypt for the first time in three millennia to join the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, Egypt's ...

A team of Canadian archaeologists is leading an expedition to find two British vessels that shipwrecked in the Canadian Arctic more than 150 years ago.

A wooden version of the world-famous stone structure has been discovered by British archaeologists.

Researchers compare the gait and foot structure of modern humans to a collection of 1.5 million year old footprints discovered in Kenya.

Peruvian researchers believe the remains date back more than 1,200 years.

Proton analysis shows the dead sea scrolls' chemistry matches that of the water in the area where the ancient document was found.

Guatemala’s jungle-covered Peten region has offered up a Mayan royal tomb packed with a hoard of carvings, ceramics and children's bones.

A centuries-old ship was unearthed at the construction site for the new World Trade Center. Archaeologists suspect it may have been used to expand lower Manhattan.