A smudge of blue on an ordinary-looking stone has forced archaeologists to rethink what Ice Age people in Europe could see, ...

A new analysis of mineral grains has refuted the "glacial transport theory" that suggests Stonehenge's bluestones and Altar ...

The origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere ...

A "princely" grave of a horse buried alongside two people has been discovered by archaeologists working on one of Britain's ...

Archaeologists have spent decades debating how and when people first entered the Americas. The outlines are familiar, but the ...

MADURAI: Some people today seem to be scared at the mere mention of Keezhadi, said archaeologist K Amarnath Ramakrishna on ...

A Bronze Age mass burial pit at Twentyshilling Barrow has been found in Scotland during the construction of a wind farm.

Archaeologists recently uncovered proof of ancient fermented beverages in western China — revealing how people brewed ...

The new Open Lab will give people the chance to see hundreds of artefacts found during eight years of excavation at Auckland Palace, in County Durham. Experts from our Department of Archaeology and ...

After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

In 2018, the first official Chinese-Egyptian joint archaeological mission was launched by the Institute of Archaeology at the ...

An international team of researchers has discovered the oldest handwritten hand stencils in a cave on the Indonesian island ...