Archaeologist Ruairi Ó’Baoill of Queen’s University Belfast said that the work, which was open to the local community, ...

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN—The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town of Eastham, Massachusetts, has been excavated by ...

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...

It didn’t rain frequently in ancient Egypt, but when it did, says Sapienza University of Rome archaeologist Aneta Skalec, it could come down so violently that it led to legal quarrels between ...

At its height in the seventh century b.c., the Neo-Assyrian Empire stretched west to east from Egypt to Elam, a kingdom in southern Iran, and from Iraq in the south to the northern reaches of the ...

GERSTETTEN, GERMANY—According to a report in The Independent, a 1,700-year-old grave was discovered in southern Germany during a construction project. The grave contained the remains of a 60 ...

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—According to a Xinhua report, a sandstone door guardian statue, or Dvarapala, has been uncovered near the second gate at the Banteay Prei temple in northwestern Cambodia’s ...

LUND, SWEDEN—According to a Phys.org report, Mikael Fauvelle of Lund University and his colleagues suggest that Scandinavia’s hunter-gatherers belonging to what is known as the Pitted Ware ...

READING, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Reading, excavations at the site of a monastery in southeastern England have uncovered another 20 intact Anglo-Saxon burials.

COUNTY DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Durham University, a team of researchers led by archaeologist Chris Gerrard of Durham University has investigated the site of Auckland ...

BERLIN, GERMANY—A short sword dated to seventeenth-century Japan was discovered in Berlin in 2022, according to a Live Science report. The Edo-period weapon was found during the excavation of ...