The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

The Chester House Estate in Irchester, Northamptonshire, appeared on BBC Two's Digging for Britain earlier this month, with ...

A remarkable discovery of underground tunnels beneath Cusco’s historic district is offering fresh insights into Inca ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

The research puts humans in Europe earlier than previously believed. Multiple cut-marked bones offer a key clue into the ...

"It's like a city frozen in time," said archaeologist Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis of Canada's McGill University.

Archaeologists have discovered three beautifully decorated 650-year-old tombs packed with artefacts during excavations in ...

Researchers discovered that Norway's Viking societies were more violent than Denmark's, with higher rates of weapon use and fatal injuries.

The remains of the deceased found in the burials may be more than 2,000 years old, according to archaeologists.

The discovery shed new light on just how advanced the civilisation that lived in the ancient city of Petra was.

Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic graves and a children’s necropolis dating back over 2,000 years.

Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...