Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of ...

UPDATE (February 4, 2013): This story from ARCHAEOLOGY's January/February 2013 issue discusses the excavation of a site known as Greyfriars, under a Liecester parking lot, and the possibility that ...

Wessex Archaeology has published the full results of nearly two decades of excavations carried out during the search for a ...

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use nearly 8,000 years earlier.

Archaeologists working near Liverpool, England, recently rediscovered a legendary medieval well. The shallow well was for centuries a popular destination for religious pilgrims, owing to its purported ...

Archaeology is the study of the artefacts and other physical evidence left by past societies of humans and closely related species. It uses scientific analysis of field samples to inform historical ...

Archaeological excavations at the heart of London's political power have revealed remarkable prehistoric tools, medieval treasures, and architectural remains spanning six millennia beneath the Palace ...

The fact that these artifacts were discovered in Thorney Island also backed their assertion, as the place supposedly had prehistoric foraging, fishing, and hunting communities. "The history of ...

From the surface, Turkey's Lake Van looks like any other large body of water. Turkey's largest, the lake sits in the far eastern region of the country, near Iran. The lake has a striking blue color ...

IN default of any statement to the contrary, it is to be assumed that “Contributions to American Archæology” is to serve as a medium of publication for results of the activities of the Carnegie ...

Archaeologists have a group of unlikely allies: trees. Dendrochronology, the scientific method of studying tree rings, can pinpoint the age of archaeological sites using information stored inside old ...