Archaeologists working at an ancient burial site in Bahrain have made a remarkable discovery that is shedding new light on the mysterious Dilmun civilization. A rare 3,300-year-old faience mask was ...

The tumulus (or burial mound) now stands about 26 feet (8 meters) above a natural hillock and more than 100 ft (30 m) above ...

Once reduced to a crumbling ruin, the centuries-old palace is now standing strong again after the successful completion of the first phase of renovation work.

The discovery sheds light on early Christian monastic life in Upper Egypt.

A fascinating archaeological discovery in South Africa has revealed that humans were using sophisticated poisoned arrows 60,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented. Chemical analysis of ...

The team excavating in the west Nile Delta have discovered a necropolis and industrial complex dating from the Roman Period.

Finding a cremated person from the Stone Age also seemed impossible because cremation is not generally practiced by African ...

The monastery complex discovery comprised the remains of a church, residential halls, and communal dining spaces, in addition ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.

The town of Port Royal is located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in southeastern Jamaica. It was a major 17th-century English port city. A devastating earthquake in 1692 submerged much of the town ...

Karahantepe is one of at least 20 sites dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, more than 10,000 years ago, that are being explored by archaeologists working in the Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, ...