Archaeologists analyzing wall fragments from a Roman villa in northern Italy have found something that shouldn't be there: grains of Egyptian blue, the oldest synthetic pigment ever made, mixed ...

The site is provisionally dated to a six-century stretch, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, offering a window ...

Before 2025, paleontologists had confirmed exactly two footprints anywhere in the world made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex — one in New Mexico, one in Montana. Isolated prints, each capturing a single ...

Late Neolithic activity at Sha'ar Hagolan, in the central Jordan Valley. The Neolithic settlement was built on top of the redeposited upper sediments. Credit: Garfinkel et al. 2006 The research, ...

In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel River curls around a low rise of land that locals call the Pilatsch. For ...

Anyone planning to build in Pontecagnano Faiano, near Salerno, has learned to expect a tomb underneath. That happened again this year, and this time the find was unusual enough that archaeologists had ...

Winchester Cathedral covers roughly 53,800 square feet (about 5,000 square meters) of floor space, making it one of the largest cathedrals in Northern Europe. At 558 feet (170 meters) long, it's also ...

In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel ...

In February 2012, after twenty years of nearly uninterrupted work, a Russian drill broke through the last stretch of ice over ...

A team led by the National Museum of Denmark has worked out, for the first time, what people actually cooked in the pots of ...

The site is called Külhöyük, in the Oyaca neighborhood of Ankara's Gölbaşı district, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of ...

The body has been lying face-down for close to two thousand years. When archaeologists reached tomb 162, on the outskirts of ...