Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left little trace. Unlike tools or bones, games rarely ...

A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He's done it by sailing like one. Archaeologist Greer Jarrett, a doctoral student at Lund University, has ...

Famed archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass believes he is close to discovering the long-lost tomb of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. Hawass, an Egyptologist and the former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, ...

How eight middle schoolers and their coach turned a student challenge into a real-world rescue for researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the excavation site inside the church in Maastricht, the Netherlands - Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuters An archaeologist ...

Archaeologists have discovered 16 ancient canoes left behind by Indigenous people along the shore of a Wisconsin lake, in what they described as the prehistoric version of a modern-day docking station ...

The marble block was found in a hall of baptism called a photisterion. It may shed light on “a stage of the early Christian ...

Workers were just starting construction on a new apartment complex in northeastern Brazil when they began finding human bones and pottery shards, their edges worn smooth by time. Soon, excavations at ...

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STEUBENVILLE — Woda Cooper Companies is trying to find a state-certified archaeological consultant to “hand-dig” areas of concern at a Washington Avenue construction site after grave markers from a ...

An archaeologist has found remains he believes belong to the famed French musketeer D’Artagnan at a church in the Netherlands, potentially solving the mystery of the hero’s final resting place more ...