The oldest previously known funeral pyre in the world was discovered in Alaska and dates to approximately 11,500 years ago, but that cremation involved a young child rather than an adult. Some burned ...

An ancient pyre in a Malawi cave reveals the world's oldest adult cremation, offering a rare glimpse into early African ...

The sturdy, well-built structure was likely constructed on dry land at a time when sea levels were much lower than they are ...

An "incomplete" set of skeletal remains found on the property of an Oregon landowner has been identified as belonging to ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

An unassuming grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far earlier chapter than ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into ...

Excavations beneath the Western Wall Plaza uncovered a rock-hewn mikveh, or ritual bath, dating to the final days of the ...

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 ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

Archaeologists might have discovered a major milestone in the quest to prove Noah’s Ark’s existence — pottery fragments near ...

In addition to ancient verses, a first-century boat ‘brings the Gospel scenes to life’ at the Museum of the Bible.