You'd think soup would completely dry up after a couple of thousand years, but a pot of still-liquid soup was found by a team of archaeologists in China. It was sealed inside a bronze cooking pot at a dig near Xian. The...

Nowhere in the world is archaeology as tied to politics as it is in Israel. Different...

Hamish Mowatt of South Ronaldsay, one of the Orkne...  ...ed chambers on the site. http://www.orkneyjar.com/ archaeology

The examples of ancient Greco-Roman statuary that survive to this day may be bare stone and earthenware, but archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann argues that they were originally brightly painted: Armed with high-intensity...

Archaeologists working in Ethiopia have discovered grooves in animal bones indicating that they had been subjected to work with stone tools. If this conclusion is accurate, the earliest tool use by hominids dates back t...

Sometimes things are worth waiting for.  Guéde...  ...for getting on for 800 years.  An experiment in archaeology in reverse.  Instead of digging down, the archae...

Archaeologists have found something at Stonehenge that is so exceptional that they're calling it the most exciting find there in fifty years: a second, Neolithic henge.The new "henge" - which means a circular m...

For several years, shrinking icefields in arctic and mountain regions have been revealing rare artifacts that had been covered by snow and ice for millennia.  Most of these reports have come from Canada and Alaska, but...

On Tuesday, workers digging a new level for a vehicle security center at the World Trade Center site ran into a set of evenly-spaced wooden beams. Had someone been building a boat in a basement? “They were so perfectl...

Dave Crisp, using only a metal detector, found a hoard of more than 52,000 Roman coins in Frome, UK. They were sealed inside a pot about 30 cm underground: Somerset County Council archaeologists excavated the pot --...