The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally nearing its grand opening after two decades of anticipation. The museum, located just ...

An excavation at Oxford University has yielded ancient book clasps, medieval pens and imported fish bones, offering ...

A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide in the western ...

A multidisciplinary research team has announced the discovery of 300,000-year-old well-preserved wooden artifacts at the Gantangqing site in Southwest China's Yunnan province, presenting the earliest ...

Polish archaeologists have unveiled a remarkable 1,000-year-old carved wooden face discovered in Lake Lednica, marking the first find of its kind from the early medieval period in this region of ...

Archaeologists say they have found some rare artifacts beneath an Ohio tavern that burned down last December.They were found under the Overfield Tavern in Troy, Ohio, a two-story log building ...

TROY, Ohio (AP) - Archaeologists are uncovering pieces of early history as an Ohio tavern continues reconstruction following a fire last December. Since last Tuesday, crews from Ohio Valley ...

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase ...

The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long fascinated ornithologists. But now, a new study has shown why the bone-eating birds could be even ...

A bargain hunter recently spotted ancient artifacts, including rings and medallions, that were up for sale for a mere $30. The customer noticed the treasures at a thrift store in Chilliwack, Canada, ...

CIUDAD REAL, SPAIN—According to a Phys.org report, scientists led by Antoni Margalida of the Institute for Game and Wildlife Research used archaeological techniques to analyze the layers of 12 bearded ...