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

A metal detectorist finds a small 2,200-year-old Celtic gold coin in Saxony that rewrites pre-Roman trade routes in Europe.

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Across North America, archaeologists are pulling remarkable stories out of the ground, from Ice Age footprints to buried cities that once pulsed with trade and ritual. As I follow these digs, I see a ...

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Interns funded by a UC-HBCU grant learned key professional skills and found their calling while excavating an archaeological ...

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 ...

In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed field and received a signal. What he unearthed over the following days would ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a mysterious Indigenous group that lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study reports. Although the people of this newfound "deep lineage" lived at ...

The Melsonby Hoard has been nominated for a national award by one of the UK’s leading archaeological publications. The project, unearthed by experts in our Department of Archaeology, including our ...