Colombia has recovered the first artefacts from the San José galleon, a 1708 shipwreck long dubbed the “holy grail of ...

The confirmation that a legendary Spanish galleon holds an estimated 17 billion dollars in treasure has turned a ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

CHENNAI – A groundbreaking archaeological excavation in Tamil Nadu is challenging existing global timelines for the Iron Age. Researchers have uncovered evidence suggesting that iron-making in the ...

Discovery Channel’s popular show “Expedition Unknown” was on site to document the discovery of 12 human skeletons and ...

"Archaeologists did not expect to find such well-preserved structures in such a harsh setting," geologist Yves Fouquet said.

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

The relationship between archaeology and espionage is close. During the twentieth century, for example, both Britain and the United States recruited archaeologists working in some of the world’s most ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a significant fresco of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" from Anatolia's early Christian ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...

Biologist Héctor Ramírez-Chaves from the University of Caldas discovers Coendou vossi, a new porcupine species hidden for decades in Colombia's Magdalena Valley forests.