Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

The location of Alexander the Great's tomb is the greatest unsolved mystery in archaeology. While there are many persuasive ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered a 2,500-year-old secret drug room filled with hollowed-out bird bones containing ...

Though dramatic images of ancient Roman gladiators fighting great beasts like lions and tigers have appeared in books and ...

Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of ...

A top archaeology journal now bars Israelis from publishing on Judea and Samaria unless they work with Palestinian ...

That includes ancient Egypt, as well as ancient Greek, Vedic, Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures. The Urarina people who live in the Peruvian Amazon Basin still use a psychoactive brew called ayahuasca in ...

In a field near the Solway Firth, sheep graze between rows of old stones. It looks just like any other stretch of farmland in ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

The top 10 Chinese archaeological discoveries of 2024 were unveiled on Thursday in Beijing by the. The selected projects are ...

Greece launches a program to protect the archaeological site of “Archontiki” on the island of Psara in the eastern Aegean.