A metal detectorist discovered ancient gold coins in the Netherlands that turned out to be a cult ritual offering. Experts believe the money left at the location was “devil’s money,” an offering to ...

Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.

The remarkably well-preserved basilica was part of a public meeting place where citizens and politicians could socialize, ...

The Lovers of Valdaro, an ancient Stone Age couple entwined in an eternal embrace, have been discovered in an archaeological search.

Remains of a civic basilica give archaeologists clues to what the original layout of Roman London looked like.

An office building from the 1930s in London was about to be demolished — until remnants of the city’s first Roman basilica ...

For the first time, visitors will see ancient artifacts from the Griffin Warrior Tomb, during an exhibition in Greece ...

In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed.

Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

Welcome to ‘sensory heritage’, the study of how we engage with objects from the past besides what they look like.

(The Conversation) — As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, ...