Buried side by side since 1836, one Mexican and one Texan cannonball lay untouched beneath the Alamo’s soil for nearly two ...

Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar ...

The ongoing concerns that a Gwinnett County church's fence​ may have been installed over graves have continued, with an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Often when people hear the word "archaeologist," they think of an iconic film character like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. However, ...

Within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in southern Mexico, archaeologists have reached an ancient Maya settlement by carving a ...

Workers were just starting construction on a new apartment complex in northeastern Brazil when they began finding human bones and pottery shards, their edges worn smooth by time. Soon, excavations at ...

Researchers in Brazil think they may have discovered the earliest known evidence of whaling. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, harpoons found in museum ...

March 24, 2015 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google With archaeology serving as a backdrop to old-fashioned adventure stories, you probably have some diverse images ...

Vikings were formidable Scandinavian warriors and sailors who, from around 800 to 1050 CE, raided, traded, and settled throughout northern Europe, Iceland, Greenland, and even as far as North America.

For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization that was ...

A group of volunteer archaeologists excavating the remnants of a Gallic site on the north coast of France has discovered a 200-year-old message from a previous archaeologist. In recent years there has ...