When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

The recent premiere of the documentary The Mystery of the Lost Pyramid on the Smithsonian Channel has unveiled an extraordinary archaeological discovery in the ancient necropolis of Dahshur, Egypt.

A famed Viking-age silver hoard discovered in Scotland may have belonged to an entire community of people, rather than one ...

The fate of the settlers who founded the "Lost Colony of Roanoke" in what is now North Carolina remains unknown.

A ‘unique’ collection of ‘pearl caves’ containing archaeological artefacts has been found in an ancient tunnel. The pearls are a type of ‘speleothem’ – mineral deposits that are formed in caves by ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain and Ireland when it was uncovered ...

Archaeologists have made a stunning breakthrough after discovering an 11th Centry medieval toilet that has helped to unravel ...

Researchers believe they might have cracked the case of the lost colony of Roanoke — a great American mystery that has eluded ...

The origin and purpose of the large rings rising out of hills in Australia's Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country have puzzled scientists for decades.

Similar rings have been found in England, Amazonia and Cambodia. A recent study, published by Australian Archaeology, found the ancient rings were created centuries ago by Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung ...

Our new study, published today in Australian Archaeology, presents the results of the only known archaeological excavation of one of these rings combined with Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung understanding ...