Recently declassified CIA files have unveiled a long-standing and little-known chapter of post-WWII history: a covert operation to track down Adolf Hitler, 10 years after he was presumed dead.

Neil Carlin, Catherine J. Frieman and Jessica Smyth/The ConversationIn County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne.

French archaeological mission, composed of experts from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, France’s National Center for Scientific Research, and Sorbonne University, has made som ...

Five thousand years ago, Bronze Age societies in Mesopotamia constructed elaborate stone tombs filled with remarkable grave ...

An eye-opening study published in the renowned open-access journal PLOS One has unveiled new evidence suggesting that Bronze Age inhabitants of Denmark were capable of directly navigating the open sea ...

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a ...

In an incredible stroke of luck (or is it really precocious skill?), a three-year-old amateur archaeologist has made history in Israel by discovering a rare artifact that dates back nearly 3,800 years ...

In an announcement that has generated a storm of controversy, a team of Italian and Scottish researchers claims to have made ...

For nearly a century, the 1,400-year old Sutton Hoo burial site has provided an intriguing window into Britain's Anglo-Saxon ...

From the human perspective, maggots are thoroughly disgusting, and when meat is infested with them it means it is spoiled and ...

While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a static period in East Asia.

The 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb stands as one of the most extraordinary archaeological finds of the 20th ...