Stonehenge builders' houses found
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Archaeologists say they have found a huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge.
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Archaeologists have excavated what is being hailed as an extremely important Viking burial ground in northeast England, those involved in the excavation said.
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ATHENS, Greece - Archeologists have discovered ancient graves near Ancient Olympia, the hallowed site where the Olympic games were born in 776 BC, the Culture Ministry said Thursday.
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BONES from the biggest dinosaur ever discovered in the UK have been excavated by fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight, according to scientists.
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Imagine the long centuries of the Stone Age, when life was, by definition, hard and there was not a tipple to be had. People in the Middle East came to find a pleasing remedy in the marvel
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LONDON - Archaeologists in northwestern England have found a burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords, spears, jewelry, fire-making materials and riding equipment, officials said Monday.
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A Bulgarian archeologist has discovered a 9,000-year-old human skeleton and the remains of a farm dwelling from the same period, the Standard newspaper reported.
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Plans to restore the ancient tradition of living and working in woodland areas are being submitted in the Highlands.
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Neanderthals survived for thousands of years longer than scientists thought, with small lingering bands finding refuge in a massive cave near the southern tip of Spain, new research suggests.
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A circular formation discovered in a wooded area next to a highway slated for widening is likely some sort of an earthen enclosure built by prehistoric Indians, Ball State University archaeologists say. Workers with the Delaware County Office of Geographic Information System found the earthen structure more than a year ago while studying contours on a large topographical map.
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Archaeologists say they have found the ashes, bones and other evidence of animal sacrifices to some pre-Zeus deity on the summit of Mount Lykaion in Greece.
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Buried for many centuries, two patrician villas unearthed here recently have been brought to life through an on-site multimedia reconstruction that plunges the spectator into the heart of ancient Roman life.
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Scientists have unearthed a new species of hobbit-sized humans that may have lived as recently as 12,000 years ago, sharing the earth alongside modern-day man.
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Archaeologists exposed remains of a four-story brick and stone mansion that was home to George Washington and John Adams.
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Archaeologist claim to have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.
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Sections of an ancient Greek theater were discovered on Thursday during construction work in an Athens suburb, archaeologists said.
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New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in South England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time 4,600 years ago that the giant stone slabs were being erected.