Recent excavations in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci revealed the head of a marble statue that appears to have Greek influence. The head belongs to a kore, statues made in the images of young ...

Archaeologists in Sweden discovered the ritual burial of a dog from 5,000 years ago. The remains of the dog sit alongside a nearly nine-inch-long, finely polished bone dagger. The dog was laid to rest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stone axe head dating back 5,000 years was found during a dig near Lincoln [BBC] A 5,000-year-old axe head and the remains of ...

Archaeologists stumbled across multiple military graves during highway construction in Central Europe — shedding light on forgotten battles dating back hundreds of years. The discovery was announced ...

Ross Larue played in the fields near Rickenbacker Airport as a kid. He helped farm the land as a teen. He's seen first-hand the transition from Air Force jets to Ohio Air National Guard missions. So ...

Once again, it has been great year for archeology and historical research. Groundbreaking discoveries were made all over the globe, from Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and the ruins of Pompeii to the ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Archaeologists from Missouri State University are confirming the existence of a previously unknown ancient ...

Native American oral history and archaeological data alike suggest that farmers in parts of North America began abandoning major settlements such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Cahokia in Illinois ...

French geologist Yves Fouquet was studying seabed charts when something unusual caught his eye: a nearly 400-foot-long linear structure off the coast of France. The underwater formation didn’t look ...

In 1912, the Grinch didn’t ruin Christmas — a tragic shipwreck did. For more than two decades around the turn of the century, a German immigrant named Herman Schuenemann engaged in an unlikely ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...