Every year we’re fortunate to glean new insights about the history of the world’s people through archaeologists. These experts dig up new finds—and thus, new findings—which shakeup what is known about ...

Colonial Williamsburg is expanding ahead of America’s 250th celebration with a new archaeology center opening in April 2026.

A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders of the late Stone Age, also known as the Neolithic period, were master ...

A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland turned morbid when historians came across a trove of infant burials dating back to Ancient Rome. The excavation began last May in order to make way ...

In the popular imagination, life at Pompeii came to an abrupt and violent end after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. Its pristine frescoes, well-preserved buildings, and petrified bodies seem ...

WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—According to a statement released by The College of William & Mary, recent archaeological work revealed the foundations of the eighteenth-century Williamsburg Bray School, one ...

A striking, large-scale marble lion, with its detailed mane and head turned in a noble pose, has emerged from the earth at Philippi ...

Preservation of archaeological sites is a much publicised subject in Sri Lanka, and a considerable amount of money has been ...