Archaeology, the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts, often unearths enigmatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of the past. These ...

A mysterious discovery buried in California’s Mojave Desert could shake up what experts think they know about prehistoric art ...

About 6,500 years ago, Neolithic groups dug several sets of concentric circles into a field in Austria. With time, grass grew to obscure the earthworks, which were unnoticed by subsequent inhabitants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery of a mysterious vault beneath a popular British tourist town has launched an archaeological investigation regarding ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a mysterious Roman-era settlement site in Germany, complete with building remains and hundreds of artifacts dating back nearly two millennia. The Schafbreite site, ...

An archaeologist recently uncovered the likely remains of a long-forgotten Byzantine settlement, offering new insights into the history of Christianity in the Middle East. Musallam R. Al-Rawahneh, an ...

The Nebra Sky Disk fuses Egyptian sun gods, Greek astronomy, and Norse myth into one baffling Bronze Age artifact.

A recent study by Dr. Georges Mouamar and his colleagues investigated the largest assemblage of securely identified rattles in the Near East. The findings are published in the journal Childhood in the ...

Archaeologists in England have discovered the remains of a previously unknown medieval settlement that appears to have been abandoned hundreds of years ago. A team of 90 researchers with Wessex ...

Whether you board a bus in Vientiane, the modern-day capital of Laos, or its ancient capital of Luang Prabang, it will take at least six hours to reach the Plain of Jars. Located just outside of ...

A hidden vault found beneath the popular tourist town may belong to 18th-century historian John Duncombe, sparking an investigation. Archaeologists discovered 14 mysterious vaults beneath former ...