A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Archaeologists in Poland discovered 5,500-year-old tombs dubbed “Polish pyramids.” The oversized graves feature earthen ...

The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...

Archaeologists from the University of Houston working at Caracol in Belize, Central America have uncovered the tomb of Te ...

Te K'ab Chaak was a wealthy warrior king who rose to power in 331 C.E. His burial is the first royal tomb found in the ...

For years, it wasn't completely clear where Philip II was buried, along with other Alexander the Great family members. Archaeologists have solved that mystery; they made a major finding relating the ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered multistory buildings from a lost Egyptian city in the Nile Delta, fostering new insights into urban life in antiquity. The ruins of the city – known in ancient times ...

The discovery was made in 2024. A news release from Mount Vernon at the time explained that, as "part of the landmark privately funded $40 million Mansion Revitalization Project at George Washington’s ...

The Teutonic Knights were a German religious order of crusaders who operated in eastern Europe in the 1000s. Similar to the ...

Archaeologists think they may have identified the final resting place of the L.W. Crane, a steamer ship that caught fire and sank in Wisconsin’s Fox River in 1880. Researchers with the Wisconsin ...

About a foot under the tombstone, crews discovered the remains of a coffin holding a full skeleton. Aleksandra Pudlo from the Archaeological Museum in Gdansk told the city that the skeleton was once a ...