A group of volunteer archaeologists excavating the remnants of a Gallic site on the north coast of France has discovered a 200-year-old message from a previous archaeologist. In recent years there has ...

Archaeologists say they have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 ...

Researchers in Brazil think they may have discovered the earliest known evidence of whaling. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, harpoons found in museum ...

If they’re lucky, archaeologists find bones, pottery, stone tools, beads and other sturdy remnants of the past. However, they’re less likely to unearth wooden artifacts, which tend to disintegrate ...

She’s been described as a hybrid of Indiana Jones and Google Earth. Now archaeologist Sarah Parcak—who pioneered the use of satellite imagery to discover lost cities and buried ruins—has an ambitious ...