In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The ...

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s ...

An ancient Roman road has been unearthed directly beneath modern-day London's Old Kent Road. It would have been used by ...

Bobbi Hornbebck, assistant professor of Archaeology, Stockton University, with archaeologists Sean Mack, left, and Dominic ...

Experts have revealed the seven most important pieces of evidence that show Jesus was a real historical figure.

Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text ...

Archaeologists have collected data which indicates the presence of a large-scale pre-Columbian fish-trapping facility. Discovered in the Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary (CTWS), the largest inland ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki, is getting a brand new subway system that will showcase ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Ngomeni village has been a beehive of activity as researchers seek to retrieve historical artefacts from the wreckage.

Archaeology studies the human past through the excavation of things people made and used thousands of years ago -- from architecture to objects like pottery bowls and animal bones from meals. Although ...