Planks of medieval shipwreck on the seafloor off the coast of Copenhagen, Denmark Painted wooden dish. COPENHAGEN, ...

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

According to a report in The Guardian, more than 800 broken whetstones have been found in northern England on the banks of ...

Saxon cemetery containing at least 11 burial mounds has been found near the coast in the East of England, about 15 miles from the site of Sutton Hoo, where an Anglo-Saxon ship burial was excavated in ...

Live Science reports that Catalina Morales and Francisco Garrido of Chile’s National Museum of Natural History examined the 1,100-year-old remains of a man unearthed in the Atacama Desert. At the time ...

A nearly complete Celtic battle trumpet, or carnyx, and parts of a second one were found in the hoard, in addition to a bronze boar head from a military standard and five shield bosses. “The carnyces ...

Bernardo Arriaza of the University of Tarapacá thinks that the Chinchorro people may have developed the practice of artificial mummification as a response to grief brought about by high infant ...

Hunting with poison arrows has been pushed back to 60,000 years ago, according to a Live Science report. Sven Isaksson of Stockholm University and his colleagues detected traces of poison in residues ...

ERBIL, IRAQ—More than 7,000 artifacts, including clay seal impressions, clay tokens, figurines, and cylinder seals, have been uncovered at Tapeh Tyalineh, a 5,000-year-old site on the Mereg River in ...

According to an Ahram Online report, the U.S. has repatriated seven artifacts to Egypt. Shaaban Abdel Gawad of Egypt’s Repatriation of Antiquities Department said that the objects include two ...

According to a statement released by the University of Edinburgh, analysis of tooth enamel samples collected from the remains of people buried in England between the end of Roman rule in Britain ...