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

Culloden was also the last pitched, large-scale battle fought on British soil, cementing its significance in modern British history.

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

Two Roman swords found in Gloucestershire reveal a hidden settlement dating back 2,000 years and the possible remains of a ...

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity's transition from hunter-gatherers to ...

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 ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

A metal detectorist finds up to 15,000 Roman coins in Wales, a discovery that redefines local history and surprises ...

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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 ...

Few places on Earth carry as much weight of history as Israel. Its soil has been turned over for millennia – by armies, pilgrims, shepherds, and, more recently, by archaeologists. Since the modern ...