Archaeologists sometimes use heavy machinery like backhoes. This kind of equipment is very helpful if used properly. The greatest advantage it offers is efficiency. In a given amount of time these ...

Archaeologists have long suspected that the iron occasionally found amongst Bronze Age artifacts had otherworldly origins, but actually testing those weapons and tools proved more challenging than ...

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the ...

While excavating a site ahead of the expansion of a local bakery chain in Burgbernheim, Germany, archaeologists made a fitting discovery: evidence of ancient baking equipment. A grinding stone and ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of a vanished island that was teeming with human life during the Stone Age off the coast ...