Off the western coast of France, archaeologists have discovered a sunken granite Mesolithic wall nine meters below sea level.

While Stonehenge is viewable only from a distance, Britain is dotted with roughly 800 lesser-known stone circles. A favorite ...

It’s nearly Christmas time, and this is the time of year when Time magazine announces its illustrious “Person of the Year,” ...

A massive Valley Temple linked to King Niuserre’s sun complex offers an insight into Fifth Dynasty worship at Abusir, Egypt ...

On the market for $26 million, Villa d'Autore on the Via Appia Antica was once owned by the Italian cinema icon and her ...

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

What did a vulture-bone flute sound like inside a cave? How about singing inside a tomb? Researchers are bringing ancient ...

A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...

Verona’s ancient Roman Arena will receive a modern facelift and become more accessible to people with disabilities ahead of ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what may be the earliest evidence of deliberate fire-making.

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...