Found in an elite military hoard, this "once-in-a-lifetime" discovery challenges what we know about Iron Age warfare.

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Poverty Point is an archaeological site north of New Orleans that experts believe was a major trading hub sometime between 1700 B.C.E. and 1100 B.C.E. A new study proposes that the impressive ...

Archaeologists preparing for construction of a new housing development in Scotland uncovered nearly 12,000 years of history. Discoveries ranged from Late Upper Paleolithic flint to Mesolithic ...

Archaeologist still depend upon tools used for hundreds of years, but some are taking advantage of what technology offers. Things like ground penetrating radar, microscopes, even satellites. Learn ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

In a rural village in Benin, emerging archeologists spent the summer uncovering the history of Saclo Village, an archaeological site managed by the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the ...

In early November 1927, the front pages of newspapers all over France featured photographs not of the usual politicians, aviators or sporting events, but of a group of archaeologists engaged in ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the spring of 2024. This email was from a thrift shop, Thrifty Boutique in ...