Archaeology excels in giving insights into the everyday lives of people in the past. It is only very occasionally that we get those spine-tingling moments when we can connect the artifacts and ...

Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of what is now Iraq. Archaeologists have long thought this grandiose project ...

A "significant" discovery has been made during the quest to find the long-lost tomb of the iconic Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

Lawyer-turned-archaeologist Kathleen Martinez has been on the hunt for Cleopatra VII’s tomb for nearly two decades. And now, ...

A Portuguese shipwreck found near the coastal Kenyan town of Malindi in 2013 may be a ship from one of Portuguese explorer ...

Archaeology is the study of the artefacts and other physical evidence left by past societies of humans and closely related species. It uses scientific analysis of field samples to inform ...

This incredible find is said to represent one of the most important discoveries in over a century, with one expert calling it ...

The fifth-century artifact was found in the ruins of a structure that may have been connected to the military. Historians think it was used as a protective amulet Cool Finds Engineers discovered ...

Here, visitors can look through a glass floor that sits on top of the remains of Fort Ville-Marie unearthed during archaeological ... costs CA$27 (around $20 for adults; CA$18 (about $13.25 ...

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