One typical day in the year 79 CE, life as usual for the residents of Pompeii came to an abrupt end. Suddenly, Mount Vesuvius erupted in a catastrophic volcanic explosion, spewing a massive mushroom ...

John Long/The ConversationThe emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.Our new discovery, published today in Nature, ...

An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the Singapore Center for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and Asia ...

In a mountainous area of eastern Turkey, a team of American researchers believes they may have uncovered the remnants of one of history's most legendary vessels—Noah’s Ark.

Beneath the ancient Maya city of Dos Pilas in northern Guatemala, archaeologists recently made a grim discovery that reveals ...

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered ...

Marianne Ham Eriksen/The ConversationPregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers – and a harsh world where not all newborns were born free or given ...

Archaeologists in Hungary uncovered a treasure trove of valuable metal artifacts during excavations at a site known as Somló ...

A groundbreaking new study has conclusively shown that southwest Britain was a major supplier of tin to Bronze Age ...

A team of archaeologists and scientists led by Karen Hardy, Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, has discovered evidence for one of the earliest human populations yet kno ...

During the excavations the archaeologists found a trench, 6.6 feet (two meters) deep, that surrounded the fortress (it would ...

In a heavily forested area near Măgura Călanului hill in Romania, an extraordinary archaeological discovery has come to light.