According to a statement released by the University of York, an excavation in northern England near the site of Skipsea Castle, built by the Normans around A.D. 1086 on an Iron Age mound, has ...

Detail of engravings on limestone block from Švédův stůl Cave PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—According to a Radio Prague ...

A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...

Reuters reports that Louis Autin and Eloïse Letellier-Taillefer of Sorbonne University and Marie-Adeline Le […] ...

According to a Herald Wales report, a Roman villa complex was found in southwestern Wales during a survey with ...

An array of luxurious artifacts was discovered in the tomb of Feng Sufu, a Northern Yan Dynasty (a.d. 407–436) general, near the city of Beipiao in northeastern China. These include (clockwise from ...

A rock shelter known as Spirit Cave overlooks Nevada’s Lahontan Basin. A burial discovered there held a man whose mummified remains are the oldest known in the world. Genetic testing has established ...

According to an IFL Science report, a medieval shipwreck has been discovered in the strait between Denmark and Sweden by a ...

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

The megalithic site of Gunung Padang in the highlands of western Java was constructed some 2,000 years ago over the course of several generations. Similar stone monuments are found across the ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...