The 500-year-old clue got them started, but archaeologists needed more modern georadar techniques to finish the job.

A team led by Egypt's former Minister of Antiquities finds evidence that the Pyramids were built by skilled workers.

There are few maps in the world as detailed or as old as the Madaba Mosaic Map. Created in the 6th century, it shows dozens of places in the Holy Land, some of which had never been found. Until now.

The Byzantine Christian settlement has been discovered in Jordan, marked on the Madaba Mosaic Map, the oldest surviving ...

In 1787, King Frederick William II married von Voß as his second wife, with prior consultation from his first wife, Queen Frederica Louise of Prussia. In November of that year, she was appointed ...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.

Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster fragments, with no picture on the box to guide them.

If you have ever thought your piece of Douglas County property had an interesting historical story to tell, there’s now a ...

James R. Strange, professor of New Testament at Samford University, was hoping to excavate a lot of ancient pottery from ...

Studies have shown that Lake Ohrid, on the Albanian and North Macedonian border, is over one million years old, making it the oldest lake in Europe. It seems only fitting, then, that it would also be ...

Bronze spearhead, Keshikchidagh, Azerbaijan. KESHIKCHIDAGH, AZERBAIJAN—Aze.Media reports that a team of researchers from ...

The tomb was found in Gdańsk, Poland, a historic city revered for its colorful architecture and location on the scenic ...