Pope Leo XIV on Dec. 11 emphasized the academic, cultural, and ecclesial value of archaeology and called for the promotion of ...

Poland detained a Russian archaeologist who works on an ancient site in Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014. Ukraine calls ...

Learn more about the creation of fire, and how new artifacts show that fire was used tens of thousands of years earlier than ...

A new study shows that Etruscan cities grew through shifting land use, farming, and settlement patterns in ancient Italy.

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

Polish authorities have detained Alexander Butyagin, a Russian archaeologist and head of the ancient world department at the ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

Archaeologists at Mleiha open a 20-pound jar containing 409 silver coins, revealing Hellenistic-Arab ambition and power.

Christian archaeology does not simply look at the past, he wrote, but it also speaks to all people in the present day.

Archaeologists recently found the lost ruins of a ceremonial temple—covered in sand and 4,000 to 5,000 years old—in ...

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...