Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

University of Sheffield and University College London researchers have made the first successful detection of estrogen, ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of an ancient bishop’s luxurious perk: a vast bathhouse, unheard of among ...

Excavations are shedding light on what life was like at the ancient site, which may have once housed hundreds of soldiers at ...

Complexity science can help archaeologists understand how the everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the ...

Last December, flames engulfed Ohio’s Overfield Tavern Museum. Now archaeologists get to dig beneath the floorboards.

Spooky-looking wooden figurines with quartzite eyes are 2,600 years old and may be linked to a Norse god. This set of carved figurines was discovered in the parish of Roos, on England's east coast.

In “Dinner With King Tut,” Sam Kean shows how experimental archaeology can recreate the stinky, slimy, and tasty parts of ...

Overall, the study tells us that by 1021 CE, the Vikings were already in North America. They could have been there earlier, ...

A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

Normally, Andrej Shevchenko and his team at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden analyse proteins and fats in the cells of fruit flies or roundworms. In this case ...

The University of Aberdeen student was working on a dig in Scotland when she found the relic that could be a rare discovery ...