A monumental Minoan building surrounding a 110-foot-long courtyard has been uncovered at Sissi on the northern coast of Crete. Built around 1700 B.C. and featuring finely plastered floors, the ...

The fourth-century a.d. Chronicles of Huayang, the oldest surviving Chinese geographical survey, records that Sichuan was ...

The woeful state of Viking bathrooms could be a factor behind smokers’ coughs in Scandinavia. Sometimes in human evolution, populations adapt in ways that aren’t always beneficial in the long run.

Clockwise, from top left: Three gold ear pendants, strips of gold leaf, silver coins, gold ear pendant A hoard of silver and gold items buried in the Netherlands 800 years ago—possibly for ...

According to a Science in Poland report, Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław and Piotr Osypiński of the Polish Academy of Sciences have identified 30 archaeological sites in Tanzania’s ...

According to a report in The Slovak Spectator, a geophysical survey conducted at the site of the Church of the Epiphany in ...

Mosaic at Antiochia ad Cragum featuring Narcissus (left) and Ganymede (right)(Courtesy Michael Hoff/Antiochia ad Cragum Excavations) A public latrine used by ancient patrons of a large bathhouse ...

ISALO NATIONAL PARK, MADAGASCAR—According to a Phys.org report, Guido Schreurs of the University of Bern and his colleagues suggest that rock-cut terraces and chambers at the remote ...

SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY—Excavation of a seventeenth-century gallows site in eastern Germany revealed two bone pits and at least 16 individual graves, according to a Live Science report.

OSLO, NORWAY—According to a Science Norway report, a team of archaeologists used clues from an early nineteenth-century travel journal to find and begin to excavate the site of a shack on Norway ...

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN—The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town of Eastham, Massachusetts, has been excavated by ...

While digging beneath the transept of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, archaeologists from the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) recovered two lead sarcophagi.