British folklore tells the story of twin brothers Hengist and Horsa, who led the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. But were ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

In the old quarter of a Breton town, a routine construction project turned into a rare encounter with the Middle Ages.

Through the centuries, ownership of the historic city of Ani and its churches has passed from one culture to another.

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

Elsewhere, a medieval loo and a jet die used to predict the future were among the finds uncovered at Auckland Castle in ...

Mysterious, ancient female figurines have been found by the dozens all over Denmark, and as far afield as England and Russia: inch-long bronze depictions of long-haired women, often wearing crested ...

Beneath a centuries-old chapel, archaeologists made a chilling find no one expected, London’s past is far from buried.

Excavations revealed everything from a 14th-century Black Death group burial to three skeletons from the late 12th or early 13th centuries buried in coffins.

New scientific testing reveals that the marble slab covering Emperor Otto I’s tomb in Magdeburg Cathedral did not come from Greece.

A peculiar seventh-century hoard unearthed in the English countryside could be the result of a "ritual killing," according to archaeologists.

Jia Xiaobing, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says the latest studies on the Hongshan culture's ...