For the past 10 years, a cadre of field researchers in France has been digging up, documenting and cataloging the physical remains of the Normandy invasion.

Share A team of Argentine paleontologists unearthed a giant reptile in Antarctica. Looking like the famous Loch Ness monster, this huge Elasmosaurid found in Antarctica is the largest one of its species ever found so far. The Argentine Antarctic Institute conducted the research, and the paleontologist José O’Gorman of the Museum of La Plata...

The scientific legacy of a quest to prove the Book of Mormon

Modern humans and Neanderthals may have diverged a long, long time ago, at least 800,000 years back.

The DNA sheds light on how people moved into Scandinavia after the Ice Age.

Archaeologists in the Bolivian Andes have discovered a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle—basically a stash of drug paraphernalia—containing traces five different psychoactive substances, including cocaine and the active ingredients found in ayahuasca.

Pastoralism is a central part of many Africans' identity. But how and when did this way of life get started on the continent? Ancient DNA can reveal how herding populations spread.

In the fifth century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt and wrote of unusual river boats on the Nile. Twenty-three lines of his Historia, the ancient world’s first great narrative history, are devoted to the intricate description of the construction of a “baris”. For centuries, scholars have argued over his account because there was no archaeological evidence that such ships ever existed. Now there is. A “fabulously preserved” wreck in the waters around the sunken port city of Thonis-Heracleion has revealed just how accurate the historian was.

Thousands of fossils date back to huge burst in diversity of life on Earth known as Cambrian explosion

Today, the city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan is relatively remote, known mostly for its magnificent medieval ruins. But over a millennium ago, it was one of the richest cities on the infamous trade route known as the Silk Road. Back in the 600s CE, that route was called simply "the road to Samarkand." By David Aragorn.

Homo luzonensis fossils found in Luzon island cave, dating back up to 67,000 years

Scientists extract proteins from a molar to uncover details of mysterious species’ origins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The ritual burial could be linked to a huge previously undiscovered Iron Age settlement.

An archaeological site not far from the Dead Sea shows signs of sudden, superheated collapse 3,700 years ago. By Bruce Bower.

A giant, plant-eating creature with a beak-like mouth and reptilian features may have roamed the Earth during the late Triassic period more than 200 million years ago, scientists said Thursday.

At the bottom of a sacred lake two massive ships lay in ruin, remnants of a mad emperor. By Paul Cooper.

On a high grassy plateau in Algeria, just 100 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea, early human ancestors butchered extinct horses, antelopes, and other animals with primitive stone tools 2 million to 2.4 million years ago. The dates, reported today, push back the age of the oldest tools in North Africa by as much as a half a million years and provide new insight into how these protohumans spread across the continent.

Archaeologists in Egypt unveil the tomb of a high priest, untouched for 4,400 years.

Lessons from long-lost civilizations. By Hannah Yi.