A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

Two kilns have been unearthed at a well-preserved pottery workshop within the Dinka Settlement Complex in northern Iraq, according to a statement released by the University of Tübingen. The workshop ...

The Anadolu Agency reports that excavations at Syedra, a 3,000-year-old city site on Turkey’s southern coastline, suggest it ...

According to a statement released by Texas Tech University, a team of archaeologists from Texas Tech University and the Texas ...

Elderly and ailing, a potter named Georges-André Colas penned a six-page letter to the Regional Archaeological Service of Burgundy in October 2008. “Dear Sir or Madam, although I am aware of the ...

According to a statement released by Goethe University Frankfurt, a building complex at the Gird-î Kazhaw site in northern Iraq has been identified as a Christian church and possible monastery by ...

Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...