The F.J. King sank in 1886, and decades of active searching yielded no results—until now.

The sarcophagi inhabitants’ actual names are unknown, but these “chantresses of Amun” served a god whose cult ran strong even ...

A 6,000-year-old trackway that dates back to the early Neolithic period has been discovered by archaeologists. The Somerset ...

Alamo staff said they found the cannonball about three feet below ground outside the Alamo Church earlier this month.

Few things grip the human imagination quite like a civilization that was once great - building cities, writing laws, trading across continents - and then simply disappeared. Not conquered, not ...

A simple note from the trash reveals proof of the existence of a Nubian king and insight into how a kingdom was run.

The Colin G. and Nancy N. Campbell Archaeology Center at Colonial Williamsburg will open to the public on April 25.

A new study has challenged the long-held belief that democratic governance was exclusively born in the classical Mediterranean world of Greece and Rome. By analyzing archaeological and historical ...

ABC News reports that France has repatriated a sacred talking drum looted from West Africa’s Ivory Coast in 1916 by French colonial authorities. The 950-pound drum, known as Djidji Ayôkwé, or “panther ...

Dated to the ninth century C.E., a time when the Vikings ruled the area, the grave held the remains of at least 10 different ...