The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Inside a wooden tar-paper shack, technicians manning a crude control panel with dials and switches sent Cape Canaveral's first rocket — Bumper 8 — soaring skyward over the Atlantic Ocean on July 24, ...

Archaeological mystery The current theory on human migrations into Japan is that the original inhabitants, the Jomon people, were met about 2,500 years ago by a separate group coming mainly from the ...

Researchers have conducted a census of the Japanese population around 2,500 years ago using the Y chromosomes of men living on the main islands of modern-day Japan. This is the first time analysis of ...

In a new Apostolic Letter commemorating the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology, ...

Growing up in the Northwest in the 20th century, if you had any interest in local history, you probably heard about the mystery of the “Beeswax Ship.” You might have read about it in a book from your ...

Archaeologists have discovered a broken panel that depicts the only known example of spider rock art in Egypt and, it appears, the entire Old World. (Photo by Salima Ikram, North Kharga Oasis Survey, ...

In the ruins of a city that was once Rome's neighbor, archaeologists last summer found a 1,000-pound lead coffin. In the ruins of a city that was once Rome's neighbor, archaeologists last summer found ...

A mystery artifact was recently excavated from The Paul Revere House property located on the Freedom Trail, Boston Archaeology announced on Tuesday. The city of Boston’s Archaeology department shared ...

Banda resident Ama Georgina cooks a soup made from cassava leaves, a main source of nutrition during the hungry season. In the Banda district of west-central Ghana, July is the hungry season. This ...

An archeological site in the ancient Roman city of Pollentia (iStock). Visitors to the site of the ancient Roman city of Pollentia during the month of July at any point in the last five years would ...