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 ...

The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town ...

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

An aerial photograph of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus shows excavations of two of the city’s industrial quarters.(Courtesy Peter M. Fischer) More than 40 years ago, a Turkish sponge diver named ...

Surtshellir, a lava tube in western Iceland, is one of many with signs of human use, but presents a puzzle for archaeologists. Was it a hideout for bandits or the feared home of a mythical fire giant?

Excavations along the I-95 corridor in Philadelphia revealed the square foundations of annealing ovens used in the Dyottville Glass Works during the early nineteenth century.(Courtesy AECOM ...

Versions of the same Bronze Age structure pop up all around Ireland and throughout the United Kingdom. Archaeologists, however, still have not agreed on their purpose. On a typically misty morning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Viking runestone, Sweden, 8th c. A.D.

In the ruins of Xanadu, the summer capital of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan (r. A.D. 1260–1294), Chinese archaeologists unearthed one of the world’s earliest surviving guns. Measuring just 14 ...