Researchers have identified a shipwreck off Porkkala in the Gulf of Finland as the warship Falken. The 17th-century ship was built for King Gustav II Adolf and was later used under Queen Kristina.

New archaeological research conducted at the legendary site of Agios Athanasios - Homer’s School - in northern Ithaca is shedding extraordinary new light on the island's prehistoric, Mycenaean, and He ...

AD 312, the fate of the future of the Roman world was decided near the Pons Milvius, the Milvian Bridge (the modern Ponte Milvio, Italy), crossing the River Tiber some 5 kilometres nor ...

In a dazzling discovery described as the first of its kind in Israel, archaeologists have unearthed a Roman marble sarcophagus bearing a mythological scene of Dionysus and Hercules locked in a spirite ...

Just 20 centimeters beneath the windswept soil of Senja, a remote island in Northern Norway, archaeologists have uncovered a stunning remnant of the Viking Age: a woman of status laid to rest in a boa ...

The bioarchaeological investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom has shed new light on an important period in Central European history.The study has been published in the jour ...

A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who had his throat cut on a busy London street almost seven centuries ago.The case is among hundreds catalo ...

Arab River winds through the southern floodplains of Iraq, a forgotten lattice of ridges, canals, and abandoned earthworks sprawls silently beneath the modern landscape.

Where the hot and sweltering tropical valleys and bleached coastlines of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago meet, ...

According to the researchers, early humans, who primarily consumed large game, required fire not for cooking, but to smoke and dry meat so that it would not rot, thereby preserving it for extended ...

A vibrant and intricately detailed mosaic dating back over 1,600 years has been revealed to the public for the first time in Israel's western Negev.

In a discovery rewriting the timeline of symbolic behavior in early humans, archaeologists in Spain have identified what is ...