As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

An immense Bronze Age settlement has emerged from the Kazakh Steppe, revealing a surprisingly urban and industrial society ...

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A team of archaeologists was looking for the ruins of Derrygonnelly Castle in County Fermanagh, Ireland. “They had initially been searching for the ruins of 400-year-old Derrygonnelly Castle in ...

The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life ...

Found in the Midyat district's Beyazsu recreation area, this Byzantine mosaic spans 430 square feet and features the name ...

No matter how much we dig, it seems there's always something new to discover. Quite literally. Each fascinating find brings ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...