A t the bottom of the “Sacred Cenote” in Mexico sits a layer of ancient treasure consisting of gold artworks, beautifully ...

Crystal skulls arrived on the archaeological scene in the 19th century. No one knew who made them. Eventually, they all ...

The structures of two ancient civilizations and wooden remains poking from sand dunes are among the latest archaeological finds around the world.

Researchers uncover 21 ancient Roman curse tablets in a necropolis in Orléans, France, with one written in Gaulish invoking ...

Among those artifacts, diggers have discovered a huge accumulation of "Clovis" points, which resulted from a flint-shaping technology associated with a site near Clovis, New Mexico. Until the past ...

Last week in "From the Archives," I introduced a series of planned columns half-jokingly titled "20,000 years of Austin history in 20 minutes." The headline comes from one of my stock speeches ...

Jomon people apparently had a strong appetite for making things. Artifacts found at Jomon Period sites range from sewing needles in various lengths to cloth woven from plants and even hairpins ...

New and exciting discoveries that belonged to the first female pharaoh were unveiled to the public in Egypt. Archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass and his team have been working at the Temple of ...

Lidar data helped researchers find thousands of Maya structures in Mexico ... The city covered around 6 square miles. The team found over 6,700 structures, including houses, plazas, temple ...

Archaeologists discovered a sixth-century sword in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the British county of Kent. The immaculately preserved sword was one of a handful of artifacts found at a site that ...

Two others look like drinking glasses. An ancient artifact found at the Saqqara site. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists plan to return to Saqqara and continue ...