From the mid-second century b.c. to the late first century a.d., the armies of China’s Han Dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220) defended their territory against the marauding forces of the Xiongnu Empire, a ...

Grade 11 student Gordie Dick uses artifacts to craft comic book pages highlighting one of his favourite oral history stories ...

How archaeologists are rediscovering the ancient world's most marvelous monuments The canonical Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were renowned for their size or splendor and—in all cases—the ...

Hunter-gatherers thrived in Florida for more than eight millennia before they began to make pottery around 2600 b.c., during the Late Archaic period. This invention seems to have dramatically changed ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life in the citadel. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discovered artifacts for sale in a thrift shop. They decided to create a college course on what to do about them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Ruins of a prehistoric stone wall submerged off the northwest coast of France may be evidence that a sunken city of legend actually existed. The megalithic structure is thought to be about 7,000 years ...

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This type of pottery is typical of the first farmers in Central and Northern Europe. To this day, the term ‘Funnel Beaker Culture’ is commonly used to describe these communities, although the term ...

Christian archaeology seeks to see, hear and touch the Word made flesh, Pope Leo XIV said, inviting the world's bishops and others to encourage young people, laypeople and priests to study archaeology ...

In new document, the Pope says archaeology not only provides historical data but also allows theology to remain rooted in the concrete reality of the people of God, capable of ‘bringing to light ...