Archaeology is concerned with the fundamental nature of human societies; through its study, we seek to understand complex social processes. Exploring both the deep and the recent human past gives us ...

Although the world is filled with historical events that happened on the ground, much of our planet's history has become lost beneath the surface. In the waters of the Mediterranean, countless ...

Archaeologists excavating at Gradishte, a site in North Macedonia, believe they may have uncovered the remains of the city of Lyncus. This is believed to be the lost capital of the ancient Kingdom ...

INGLEWOOD FOREST, ENGLAND—During renovations at a former Tudor hunting lodge known as The Ashes, which is located in Inglewood Forest, Cumbria, workers exposed rare sixteenth-century wall ...

Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of stone tools from a cave that have revealed surprising similarities between prehistoric people and humans today. The 20,000-year-old tools, found on the ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it appears foreigners from Teotihuacan built it.

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of miles away. By Carl Zimmer For decades, fishermen sailing off the coast of ...

Home Depot (HD) closed the most recent trading day at $334.81, moving -1.96% from the previous trading session. This change lagged the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. On the other hand ...

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The coin, believed to be the only of its kind discovered in the British ...