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The Senhouse Roman Museum will begin its third summer of excavation next month on the site next to the Roman fort.

A previously undiscovered church, thought to be at least 1,000 years old, has been found beneath Lincoln Castle.

Pioneering X-ray technology is making it possible to read fragile rolled-up historical documents for the first time in centuries.

In a major find that throws evidence to Erode’s connection to Tamil Brahmi era, a research team of Pondicherry University found several pot shells containing Tamil Brahmi letters dating to 500 BC at Kodumanal near Chennimalai.

Archaeologists have discovered six pagan Saxon skeletons dating back over 1,000 years on a housing development site just a few miles from Stonehenge.

Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionise thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.

Cedric Arnold was on assignment in Thailand when he first saw a shipyard worker covered head-to-toe in tattoos.

Volcanoes are rumbling in both the Arctic and the tropics of North America, while other eruptions continue on an Italian island and in the frozen tundra of Russia. Continue reading →

A team of researchers from Germany and France reporting in the Physical Review Letters has developed and successfully tested a form of invisibility cloak that can guide the flow of heat around objects, making them thermally invisible.

The Greek polis, as a political and territorial entity, is a remarkable social organisation that emerged in the Greek world after the collapse of the Mycenaean palace system and the “transition” period that followed.

The ancient water could host ancient life and could be a sign that Mars, too, could host ancient water and life.

Archaeologists said this week that after working for seven years on Downtown’s Riad al-Solh Square they have reason to believe that ruins there include the remnants of a gate that served as a main entrance to the ancient Roman city that once...

Geomorphologists and dating specialists from The Universities of Aberystwyth, Manchester, and Adelaide say that it was the River Nile which made life viable for the renowned Kerma kingdom, in what is now northern Sudan.

A University of Otago-led multidisciplinary team of scientists have shed new light on the diet, lifestyles and movements of the first New Zealanders by analysing isotopes from their bones and teeth.

Archaeologists found the 1,400-year-old remains of a Nubian soldier in Aswan, a city in southern Egypt, Minister of State for Antiquities Ahmed Eisa said.

The peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather was at its hottest.

New archaeological discoveries in Yuyao city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, provide a clearer picture of life in China's Neolithic age and confirm that the nation originated the practice of paddy cultivation.

The peninsula of Cape Zoster, now called Mikro Kavouri “protects the modern yacht harbor and bathing beaches of Vouliagmeni.

Copper coins and a 70-year-old map with an ‘X’ marked on it may lead to a discovery that could change everything we've been led to believe about Australia's discovery.

According to an international team of anthropologists led by Binghamton University, tiny ear bones from two species of early human ancestors in South Africa – Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus – could provide clues about our...