Swedish archaeologists uncovered a rare 1,100-year-old Viking coffin grave containing weapons near Linköping, describing ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

A new study shows that pregnancies during the Viking Age were far from a private matter, closely tied to conflict, social ...

First-known example of overhead ring placement suggests handles were designed as lifting grips for Roman-period wooden ...

Learn how researchers combined modern tech, text, and bones to uncover details about a disabled man’s life in medieval Sweden ...

Many of the greatest wonders of times past were discovered by accident. French soldiers stumbled across the Rosetta Stone in ...

Mexico’s culture secretary said her agency was weighing legal action against a production company for video that seemed to ...

New archaeological research on the Tangier Peninsula reveals significant cultural links between Europe and Africa during the Bronze Age.

Despite its central role in human history, pregnancy has often been overlooked in historical studies. However, a new study ...

Archaeologists have made a significant discovery in northern Morocco’s Tangier Peninsula, just south of the Strait of ...

When a wall of the Igreja Matriz de Portimão, a 15th-century church in Portugal, collapsed, it revealed an unexpected ...

The earliest known silk texts and the only ones from China's Warring States Period (475-221 BC) were named after "Zidanku," ...