The vessel dates back 2,400 years to the days of ancient Greece. By Colin Dwyer.

Greek archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of a city believed to have been founded by Trojan prisoners of war in the 12th or 13th century BC.

A top Egyptian antiquities official says local archaeologists have discovered seven Pharaonic Age tombs near the capital Cairo containing dozens of cat mummies along with wooden statues depicting other animals and birds.

Egyptologists stumble across ramp that helps explain how huge blocks of stones were hauled into place.

For thousands of years, ancient Maya kings ruled a vast inland empire in Mexico and Belize. But just how inland was it, really? By Erik Vance.

Bronze disk unearthed by archaeologists in same wreck where original 2,200-year-old computer had been found

Men using the public toilets in Antiochia ad Cragum would have gotten the dirty jokes in the floor mosaics.

Researchers in Egypt have discovered a 4,500-year-old ramp system used to haul alabaster stones out of a quarry

Researchers study Neanderthal children's teeth to learn more about the developmental and environmental conditions they endured.

A painstaking investigation of Europe’s cave art has revealed 32 shapes and lines that crop up again and again and could be the world’s oldest code

No two child births are the same, but the female physiology that brings people into the world is more varied and complex than what science textbooks would have you believe, new research suggests.

At the time, the Arabian Peninsula was a grassland dotted with lakes.

An international team of researchers, including from the University of Washington, has completed a 3D virtual reconstruction of a Neandertal thorax a model that indicates an upright individual.

The ancestors of today’s squamates were lost in time. Now paleontologists have identified the earliest known example: Meet Megachirella.

Excavators working in the Roman-era city of Pompeii, Italy, have uncovered an ancient shrine surrounded by idyllic paintings of plants, snakes and a lifelike peacock. Massimo Osanna, the archaeologist in charge of the work, said that the site was “exceptional,” citing not only “the incredible decoration of the wall painting” but also the fact that it was “very well preserved.”

Junchang Lü was is one of the most important dinosaur researchers of the past half century

People are saying I am the queen of Sweden because of the legend of King Arthur

Civilization is back. But it is no longer the preserve of “Renaissance man” or of “the West,” or even of literate societies. Civilization is a way of talking about human history on the largest scale. From the cave paintings of Lascaux to the latest MoMA exhibition, it binds human history together.

In 1885, an explorer ventured out into an uncharted area of the Kalahari Desert and would lay eyes upon a great mystery that still remains unexplained. By Brent Swancer.

Citizens and scientists on the Orkney Islands are racing to protect thousands of ancient structures threatened by climate change.

An exquisitely preserved skeleton of a woman dubbed the 'Grand Lady' has been discovered in a water-filled coffin in China.

A 20-metre Viking longship, five longhouses and a number of burial mounds are discovered next to a busy Norwegian freeway using a high-tech georadar.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Rare, mummified animals discovered by gold miners in Yukon territory

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

The largest-ever survey of a region from the Maya civilization has located over 60,000 previously unknown structures in northern Guatemala. The survey, conducted with the help of lasers, challenges long-held assumptions that this area was poorly connected and sparsely populated. The structures researchers identified include farms, houses and defensive fortifications, as well as 60 miles of causeways, roads and canals connecting large cities across the civilization’s central lowlands.

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest hominid remains ever found in Poland. “The bones discovered by our team at Jaskinia Ciemna [a cave in the southern Małopolska region] are the oldest hominid remains from the area of Poland,” Professor Paweł Valde-Nowak of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków told PAP.

For nearly two millennia, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has served as a stark reminder that nature is capable of some serious violence.

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.

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.