HATALOV, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a 5,000-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in eastern Slovakia by researchers from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of ...

Artnet News reports that archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) working ahead of road construction in southern England uncovered two wells dug by the Romans at the site of a large ...

BERLIN, GERMANY—A short sword dated to seventeenth-century Japan was discovered in Berlin in 2022, according to a Live Science report. The Edo-period weapon was found during the excavation of ...

HELSINKI, FINLAND—Yle News reports that divers have been investigating a shipwreck in the shallow waters close to the Suomenlinna fortress area of Helsinki, where six fortifications were built ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that ...

During the Second World War, Cambridge, like most of England, was under threat of aerial bombardment. The first daylight raids over the country took place in June 1940, and they continued ...

A mosaic depicting the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (left) decorates Ravenna’s Basilica of San Vitale (right). The monumental building was one of many constructed during his reign, which lasted ...

Scholars have longed believed that a Bronze Age Aegean painting of a troop of monkeys depicts stylized exotic primates cavorting about a rocky landscape. The fresco adorns a room in a two-story ...

Archaeologist Joanna Ostapkowicz of the University of Oxford has spent countless hours combing through documents stored in the two miles of shelves at the National Anthropological Archives (NAA ...

In the ruins of Xanadu, the summer capital of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan (r. A.D. 1260–1294), Chinese archaeologists unearthed one of the world’s earliest surviving guns. Measuring just 14 ...

Map showing 273 shipwrecks in the Irish Sea(Courtesy Innes McCartney) Now, an expansive archaeological survey has revealed new information about hundreds of ships whose stories had been ...