A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

ARCHAEOLOGY magazine’s editors reveal the year’s most exciting finds ...

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

An array of luxurious artifacts was discovered in the tomb of Feng Sufu, a Northern Yan Dynasty (a.d. 407–436) general, near the city of Beipiao in northeastern China. These include (clockwise from ...

A majestic row of five circular pyramids known as yácatas dominates a promontory overlooking Lake Pátzcuaro in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Embodying the former might of the Purépecha ...

Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...