Archaeology, the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts, often unearths enigmatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of the past. These ...

Norway's melting glaciers are revealing objects from the Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the medieval era. Some ancient artifacts are mysteries, but they still indicate trade routes through the mountains ...

A mysterious discovery buried in California’s Mojave Desert could shake up what experts think they know about prehistoric art ...

About 6,500 years ago, Neolithic groups dug several sets of concentric circles into a field in Austria. With time, grass grew to obscure the earthworks, which were unnoticed by subsequent inhabitants ...

An archaeologist recently uncovered the likely remains of a long-forgotten Byzantine settlement, offering new insights into the history of Christianity in the Middle East. Musallam R. Al-Rawahneh, an ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a mysterious Roman-era settlement site in Germany, complete with building remains and hundreds of artifacts dating back nearly two millennia. The Schafbreite site, ...

Is it a musical instrument? A candle holder? A measurement tool? It’s a Roman dodecahedron—a mysterious artifact from ancient times—and it may have been any of the above, or none. Although these ...

A recent study by Dr. Georges Mouamar and his colleagues investigated the largest assemblage of securely identified rattles in the Near East. The findings are published in the journal Childhood in the ...

A hidden vault found beneath the popular tourist town may belong to 18th-century historian John Duncombe, sparking an investigation. Archaeologists discovered 14 mysterious vaults beneath former ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet room. Known as a “megalography,” a Greek term for grand painting, the frescos ...

Archaeologists in England have discovered the remains of a previously unknown medieval settlement that appears to have been abandoned hundreds of years ago. A team of 90 researchers with Wessex ...