Famous today for housing England’s Houses of Parliament, archaeological excavations beneath London’s Palace of […] ...

A rock shelter known as Spirit Cave overlooks Nevada’s Lahontan Basin. A burial discovered there held a man whose mummified remains are the oldest known in the world. Genetic testing has established ...

The Passy-style tombs are a dramatic departure from earlier Neolithic burials not just in terms of their scale, but in what ...

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The central Mexican city of Xochicalco was established around a.d. 670 atop a 400-foot-tall hill. At the city’s highest level ...

Ancient Maya rulers were seen as divine beings responsible for all aspects of life, including the weather. And for the Maya, the wind was more than just an element—it was a force that symbolized the ...

Traces of a fortified settlement and a cemetery containing about 40 graves dating to approximately 800 to 323 B.C. are being investigated in east-central Greece by Maria Papageorgiou of the Ephorate ...

Twenty-two pieces of silver bullion, including both raw ingots and flattened Viking arm rings, were discovered in the Galloway Hoard. Arm rings such as these, which are usually found in Ireland and ...

In the language of the Vikings, Old Norse, rök means “monolith,” and no other runestone stands out from its peers in more ways than Sweden’s Rök. The five-ton stone measures eight feet tall and its ...

Top 10 Discoveries of 2024 January/February 2025 Grim Evidence from the Arctic King William Island, Canada ...

An archaeologist investigates how construction of New York City’s largest reservoir a century ago uprooted thousands of rural residents The Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskill Mountains supplies New ...