Ahmet Hergune was killed during the conflict between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in 1974

Oval-shaped Dickinsonia lifeform existed at least 20m years before the ‘Cambrian explosion’ of animal life

Rare, mummified animals discovered by gold miners in Yukon territory

Scientists are hoping archaeology, carbon dating, and tree rings together can help solve the mystery.

Archaeologists are studying a valuable trove of old Roman coins found on the site of a former theater in northern Italy.

Last month, Russian archaeologists found a secret chamber inside a medieval castle. While exploring this previously unknown area, the archaeologists discovered a clay brick with tracings of what appears to be a medieval board game.

The dig site found by metal detectorists 3 years ago appears to be a high-status homestead that once had two villas

Large-scale cemetery in Africa points to shared workload without social hierarchy

A group of researchers with the American Museum of Natural History said they discovered the largest dinosaur foot to date belonging to a brachiosaur in Wyoming.

Archaeologists find corroded shells stored by powerful 18th-century ruler Tipu Sultan

Remains of grand building that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls uncovered in central Cologne, dating back to second century AD

Archaeologists uncover the remains of a giant rack of skulls beneath downtown Mexico City

A wildly incorrect 1923 study on Stonehenge led to all kinds of wrong ideas about the monument's history.

A team of international scientists led by researchers from Australia found the oldest color in Earth’s geological record. The ancient pigment found in rocks beneath the Sahara desert could be ten times older than the T-rex.

The burned crumbs shed light on prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ diets.

Fossilized remains of Lingwulong shenqi show that big herbivores with long necks reached East Asia and evolved earlier than scientists had thought.

Never doubt the power of the monsoon.

Remains of grand building that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls uncovered in central Cologne, dating back to second century AD

In southern Wales’ Vale of Glamorgan, archaeologists flying over a prehistoric settlement they had previously studied got a surprise: the ghostly outline of a Roman villa on the ground inside the older settlement’s boundaries. “We know of Roman villas built within prehistoric settlements elsewhere,” the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales wrote in a published statement, “but this is a new example.”

A newborn snake, preserved in amber from Myanmar for nearly 100 million years, is a first for the fossil record and reveals how the animals developed.

The shoes, known as hipposandals, were found by a volunteer at Vindolanda.

Wall carvings were found in what was once a fishing city of the Caral civilization, the oldest in the Americas. The relief is thought to symbolize a period of drought and famine brought on by climate change.

There’s a common story of how the Maya civilisation was wiped out: they fell foul of unstoppable climate change. Several periods of extreme drought withered their crops and killed off thousands in their overpopulated cities. ‘There was nothing they could do or could have done. In the end, the food and water ran out – and they died,’ wrote Richardson Gill in 2007. The jungle reclaimed the cities with their palaces and pyramids until they were rediscovered in the 19th century by intrepid explorers.

A lost 3,000-year-old castle has been discovered by divers and researchers in Turkey’s Lake Van. The spectacular ruins are thought to be those of a fortress built by the Uratu civilisation which flourished in the iron age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC. The discovery was made by archaeologists from the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University working with a team of divers.

The findings have national significance

Researchers have mapped Venezuela's rock art in unmatched detail. The map features some of the largest rock engravings in the world and some 2,000 years old.

Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery of two small ancient tombs in the southern city Luxor dating back some 3,500 years and hoped it will help the country's efforts to revive its ailing tourism sector. The tombs, located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery for noblemen and top officials, are the latest discovery in the city famed for its temples and tombs spanning different dynasties of ancient Egyptian history.

Because sometimes a plain old biscuit calls for some ancient Assyrian script.

Since the 1920s, pottery spanning thousands of years has turned up in Lake Biwaka. Archaeologist don’t know why. A robot has photographed a nearly intact ancient urn at the bottom of Japan’s largest freshwater lake, according to Japanese national paper the Asahi Shimbun. Over the last century, a number of pottery pieces representing a huge range in timeline have been recovered from Lake Biwako in central Japan; archaeologists have no idea why.

An ancient doll and a mythical animal were buried with a child from the Okunev culture in the Bronze Age.

Archaeologists clearing attics to create new museum space find 30,000 stained glass shards, some dating back to 13th century

A group of divers has found a connection between two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico to reveal what is believed to be the biggest flooded cave on the planet, a discovery that could help shed new light on the ancient Maya civilization.

More than 4,000 years ago builders carved out the entire surface of a naturally pyramid-shaped promontory on the Greek island of Keros. They shaped it into terraces covered with 1,000 tonnes of specially imported gleaming white stone to give it the appearance of a giant stepped pyramid rising from the Aegean: the most imposing manmade structure in all the Cyclades archipelago.

Her name is Avgi, and the last time anyone saw her face was nearly 9,000 years ago. When she lived in Greece, at the end of the Mesolithic period around 7000 B.C., the region was transitioning from a society of hunter gatherers to one that began cultivating its own food. In English, Avgi translates to Dawn—a name archaeologists chose because she lived during what's considered the dawn of civilization.

Stone’s silent sister in the archaeological record. By Alexander Langlands.