During the devastating plague outbreaks of 17th-century Europe, the disease did not strike equally. A recent bioarchaeological study of plague victims from a hospital cemetery in Basel, Switzerland, ...

The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) announced in mid-April that its archaeologists had found a mortar shell at Culloden ...

Archaeologists have made three major discoveries that are redefining the understanding of ancient seafaring—from a pre-Viking ship burial in Norway to a vast shipwreck graveyard in Gibraltar and ...

A new study found that a pachyderm skeleton, dismissed for decades as unimportant, offers evidence of careful planning, ...

Archaeologists working outside of Stockholm discovered silver treasure buried in a pot in an area that used to be farmland.

Throughout our time on Earth, we humans have created some pretty cool stuff.

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius froze the ancient Roman city in time, giving modern-day humans a remarkable vision into the past ...

Analysis of a monumental ship burial in Norway is rewriting the history of a practice largely associated with the Viking age ...

The "harbor" of the Strait of Gibraltar is the final resting place for shipwrecks from Ancient Rome, the Medieval era and ...

The study of organic waterproofing materials used in historical shipbuilding has received little attention from archaeology, ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis ...

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million ...