Excavations in Benin, Nigeria, have uncovered a record of the Kingdom, revealing royal quarters, shrines, and layers from the ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

Archaeologists recently discovered a massive 2,000-year-old stone basin in ancient Gabii, Italy, revealing early Roman public architecture from Rome's powerful rival city.

According to legend, the Trojans migrated to Britain after the fall of Troy. A new book investigates the historicity of this legend.

History is a complex web of triumph, tragedy, and change, but it isn’t immune to the threads of misinformation and misconceptions. There are “facts” that are often passed down through generations and ...

An international team of maritime archaeologists race to save the remains of 18th century shipwrecks on the shores of a river island near the frontline of Russia's war on Ukraine.

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.

Archaeologists from the University of Glasgow and the National Trust for Scotland have recovered more than 100 projectiles, ...

Newtown, PA Now reports that an archaeological investigation conducted in eastern Pennsylvania by a team of volunteers led by ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

Skulls displayed in public 2,000 years ago were intended as a warning to enemies and a celebration of comrades, a new paper ...