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 ...

As much as 100,000 years ago, modern humans in southern Africa began to settle down. Just how and why this momentous shift in our distant ancestors’ way of life occurred is difficult for ...

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 BBC News report, a pit containing waste materials perhaps left behind by a pub was unearthed during an investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in southeastern England’s ...

According to a Science in Poland report, Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław and Piotr Osypiński of the Polish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...