This was a center of unparalleled creativity during the seventh and eighth centuries a.d. Thrilling discoveries in 2024 ...

VEKSØ, DENMARK—According to a Live Science report, a metal detectorist recovered a Bronze Age sword from a bog in eastern ...

The 2,000-year-old tomb of a Roman soldier—including evidence of his name—has been discovered in the city of Heerlen, ...

Ancient Egyptian deities were often depicted in the form of animals. The goddess Isis was sometimes shown as a cow, and her son Horus, the god of kingship, took a falcon’s form. But the identity ...

Many of the enslaved Africans sent to Brazil beginning in 1549 were from what is now Angola, where one of the most widely spoken languages was Kimbundu. These people brought with them the ...

Within the earthen walls of a fortress in Mongolia’s Dornod Province, archaeologists discovered the twelfth-century burial of a woman who was part of a nomadic group from the Khar Nuur region.

While investigating looters’ holes at the site of La Otra Banda in northern Peru’s Zaña Valley, archaeologist Luis A. Muro Ynoñán of the Field Museum and the Pontifical Catholic University ...

A stone wall that lies nearly 70 feet underwater and stretches for more than half a mile on the floor of the Baltic Sea some six miles off the German coast appears to be the oldest known structure ...

A mural in the home of Lucas Asicona in the small Guatemalan city of Chajul depicts a dwarf carrying a long stick, two ...

The ancestry of dogs in seventeenth-century Jamestown offers a window into social dynamics between Indigenous people and early colonists. America’s first permanent colony, Jamestown was ...

A majestic row of five circular pyramids known as yácatas dominates a promontory overlooking Lake Pátzcuaro in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Embodying the former might of the ...