Why did a Renaissance duke fill his wooded park with gargantuan stone sculptures?

Archaeologists Excavated One of America's Oldest Schools—and Found a Secret Cellar The Williamsburg Bray School predated the United States’ official founding. But it has a dark history.

The Kansas Historical Society’s archaeological field school this year gave volunteers a chance to dig into the state's territorial history at the site of an 1850s-era mansion near Lecompton.

Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient sarcophagus depicting a scene familiar to many today: a drinking game.

In 1838, two American clergymen — Edward Robinson and Eli Smith — set out for the Holy Land, spades in one hand and Bibles in the other, as the famous saying goes.

Archaeologists found stalagmites intentionally reassembled within the caves, dating them to prehistoric times. Questions remain about the purpose of the underground structures in a cave already ...

ʻŌpio (youths) can earn $500 by digging into an Upcountry archaeology series starting July 26.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia have unearthed the foundation of a building from the 1700s that once supported the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children… ...

Recently, archaeologists found a sarcophagus depicting the two mythic figures fighting an epic battle —except it wasn’t a fist fight or a clash of swords. It was a drinking competition.

The world's oldest known dress is a simple V-necked garment that was overlooked as rags for decades.