Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th Century monastery near Downpatrick, County Down, that was destroyed ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient city in North Macedonia that might be Lyncus, the capital of an ancient civilization.

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of unique, centuries-old inscriptions in a place believed to be the site of the ...

Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

Most of us have skeletons in our closets, but they can also lurk in much less familiar places. Literally.

The discovery at the Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala “marked a public dismantling of an old regime”—a rather pivotal moment ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

A 2,000-year-old ring discovered near Jerusalem may well have been worn by the man who condemned Jesus to death.

Today, the gap between the rich and poor only seems to grow wider each year. But economic inequality isn’t just […] ...

The early results from a long-awaited excavation of the quarry beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are nothing short of ...

Easter-egg decorating is an ancient tradition with deep roots extending at least into the medieval period of European history ...