The symbol was very common in the Middle Ages and was used by cultures across the world before it was appropriated by German ...

When a roughly 1,500-year-old sword is described as still being in the “top echelons of swords,” you know that’s a pretty ...

Painted dog penis bone, believed to be the first of its kind, is unearthed from limestone shaft in Surrey’s Ewell ...

The emerging importance of the find underscores a key truth about archaeology: artifacts often hold secrets that only later ...

After completing fieldwork at the Wuwangdun No.1 tomb site in Huai'nan, East China's Anhui Province, archaeologists have ...

The 2,000-year-old military general figurine is the tenth of its kind to be excavated from the emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb, ...

Archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) have unearthed a fascinating artefact in ...

A cache of precious metal regalia recently discovered in a Lithuanian cathedral sheds light on medieval royalty.

A sixth-century sword has been unearthed by archaeologists from a Lancashire university. The well-preserved weapon was ...

Old Fired Clay Disk Inscribed With Symbols From Crete Continues to Baffle Archeologists, Never Been Able to Decipher Phaistos ...

Archaeologist Glenn Schwartz unearthed four ancient clay fragments in northern Syria bearing inscriptions that may be the earliest known alphabetic writings.

“These adornments on the high-ranking officers indicate how special they are,” Xiuzhen Janice Li, an archaeologist at ... taste and social status symbols [of the time].” ...