Finding 9,000-year-old organic remains in eastern Norway is extraordinarily rare due to acidic soil conditions that typically destroy such materials quickly. The exceptional preservation at Horten has ...

After four and a half years of meticulous underwater excavation, maritime archaeologists have completed the documentation of one of the most remarkably preserved Roman shipwrecks ever discovered in ...

Recent archaeological excavations have unearthed an ancient artifact that challenges our understanding of early technology: a battery believed to be thousands of years old. This remarkable discovery ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered Oldowan stone tools that push the technology’s origins back toward the 3-million-year mark, and they were found beside fossils from ...

Experts believe the site where the coins, which date back 2,500 years, were found could have once been a seasonal market.

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people ...

From mysterious gears to precision tools, the British Museum holds artifacts that don’t quite fit the timeline. Are these traces of lost engineering—or are we missing something?

But the gap between fantasy and reality has narrowed dramatically when it comes to what we know of China’s tyrannical first ...

In the cliffs of southern Spain sit “ancient nests” built by bone-eating vultures but left abandoned since the birds went locally extinct roughly a century ago. The “well-preserved” nests hid many ...