After revisiting items from a Brazilian museum, researchers think humans may have been hunting whales 5,000 years ago, a ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

“It is really exciting and very moving to be the first person to pick up a stone artifact since its original maker put it down millions of years ago,” says Sonia Harmand, an archaeologist at the ...

Discoveries at a controversial southeastern archaeological site could potentially push back the timelines for human arrival ...

Archaeology is meant to help us understand our past. But sometimes it throws up objects that are so unusual, so advanced or so baffling that we can’t be sure what they really are or what they were ...

A student from the Sunshine State recently struck gold during an archaeological excavation in Britain – over 4,000 miles from home. Yara Souza of Orlando, Florida, discovered the ninth-century golden ...

Archaeologists excavating at Tadım Fortress and Höyük in eastern Turkey have unearthed a remarkable stone seal dating back 7,500 years, pushing evidence of organized settlement in the Elazig region ...

Archaeologists in Italy found three prehistoric tombs, known as “fairy houses,” with artifacts inside. The photo shows Tomb XIX. Photo from the Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture for ...

What was the Museum of the American Revolution before it was constructed? FOX 29's Jennifer Lee heads to the historic location in Old City for the details.