Photo: Bolonchen Regional Archaeological ProjectArchaeologists have found new clues from the Maya ruins of Kiuic in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that may shed light on the collapse of the Maya civilization ten centuries ag...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have found a 2,000-year-old stone cup. The leader of the excavation team Shimon Gibson of the University of North Carolina says this kind of cup was common in Jewish households of the time, bu...

Six years after the invasion (and subsequent liberation) of Iraq, the country is still too dangerous for normal tourism. This is too bad since Iraq is literally a treasure trove of archaeological artifacts.To accommodate...

An oak barrel of butter has been found in a bog near Gilltown, Ireland. Two workers, John Fitzharris and Martin Lane, noticed a white streak in the peat and uncovered the barrel, estimated to be 3,000 years old. Pádraig...

Archaeologists have unearthed a well in Cyprus that is believed to be between 9,000 and 10,500 years old, making one of the earth's oldest water wells. Debris at the bottom of the well includes the skeleton of a woman....

Thanks to movies and a series of insurance ads, we tend to think of the extinct hominids known as Neanderthals as hairy, stooped, club-wielding caveman. Modern science knows a lot more about Neanderthals now, but the old...

A bottle has been unearthed in Greenwich, England...  ...Unique Daily (image credit: Mike Pitts/British Archaeology )

Photos: otisarchives2 (left), modcult (right)Are cave paintings signs of intelligence of ancient cave dwellers or are they just scribbles of crazy cavemen? Take a look at the two photos above. The one to the left is a pa...

It appears men had voluptuous women on their minds about 10,000 years earlier than we previously thought. A new archeological find is the oldest known representation of a human being. Ed Yong reveals the new art piece, a...

Archaeology is a religion for illuminated individuals, howeve...