Two Homo erectus skull fragments discovered during dredging in the Madura Strait in Indonesia have opened a new window onto the ancient landscape of Sundaland. The fossils were found among more than 6 ...

NAPLES, ITALY—ArtNet News reports that officials at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii have concluded that a looted fragment of a mural depicting Hercules as an infant wrestling a snake came from the ...

Archaeologists in Peru uncovered a previously hidden pyramidal structure near the sacred city of Caral-Supe after clearing an ...

In a rural village in Benin, emerging archeologists spent the summer uncovering the history of Saclo Village, an archaeological site managed by the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the ...

EASTBOURNE, ENGLAND—New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from southeastern England, according to a report in The Guardian. The ...

The term "culture" has a bad reputation in archaeological research—and for good reason. In the early 20th century, the German archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna argued that archaeological cultures were to ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories. The shrine that houses the traditional burial place of ...

China has announced its top 10 archaeological discoveries for 2025, revealing cultural exchange across thousands of years.

Connecticut’s state archaeologist discussed 2025 archaeology discoveries and projects in the state to an audience at the Mansfield Public Library on Saturday, Jan. 31. An event attendee looking at ...

Two University of Houston professors' discovery of a Mayan ruler's tomb was named one of the top 10 finds of 2025 by Archaeology Magazine. UH Provost Diane Chase and her husband, anthropology ...

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging for the stations. By Elisabetta Povoledo Elisabetta Povoledo, who has ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...