Imagine a vast underground palace, brimming with treasures and guarded by an army of stone warriors, sealed tight for over two millennia. This is the .

Nestled in the sun-drenched plains of Alicante province, the quaint Spanish town of Villena guards a secret that bridges earth and sky. Back in 1963, workers digging a gravel pit stumbled upon the ...

Archaeologists have stumbled across a slab with sinister skull markings and a mysterious vault below a historic British high street. Workers in Canterbury, Kent, found the secret brick-lined chamber ...

Forget hard drives. Scientists just figured out how to store all of humanity's data on glass, and it could last longer than most civilizations ever did.

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

In their quest to better understand the ancient world, from the depths of Lake Huron to the deserts of Sudan, archaeo ...

There's something profoundly captivating about the phrase "lost to time." Throughout history, countless treasures, cities, ...

For the first time since it sank more than 160 years ago, the public is getting a high-definition look at the Civil War’s ...

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...

Long-term excavation at Sardis continues to reveal its rich past. Collaboration and continuity are key to protecting and understanding the ancient city.

But then the archaeologists took a closer look at the amulet from grave 134. The inch-long silver charm held a fragile, broken piece of foil that seemed to have writing on it. The amulet, it turned ...