From the storied shores of Scandinavia to the ancient cities of the Mediterranean, Europe is rich with remnants of its past. Roamed by early hunter-gatherers, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and many ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Zainolla Samashev: the man behind Kazakhstan’s most iconic archaeological discoveries In this episode of Voices from Central Asia, we meet renowned Kazakh archaeologist Zainolla Samashev, whose ...

Every once in a while, archaeologists pull something out of the ground that makes us rethink what we thought we knew about our ancestors. These aren't just treasures sitting in museums. They're ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories. The shrine that houses the traditional burial place of ...

Archaeologists in Trabzon, Turkey, have made an extraordinary discovery, unearthing one of the world’s only three known ancient river ports. The structure, found buried nearly eight meters (26 feet) ...