French researchers believe they found the remains of famed French Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay, who died in 1560. The ...

The Maya ruler in question was Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of Caracol, an important Maya city that ruled the southern part ...

If you have ever thought your piece of Douglas County property had an interesting historical story to tell, there’s now a ...

Researchers led by Tohoku University’s Motoyuki Sato used GPR—along with a method known as electrical resistivity tomography ...

A tomb beneath Petra’s Treasury reveals 12 skeletons and 2,000-year-old artifacts. Archaeologists call it a rare find, ...

The Roman Empire built 73 miles of wall to fortify its northern border in Great Britain. In AD 122, the Emperor Hadrian ...

Pirates attacked the Portuguese warship, named the "Nossa Senhora do Cabo," and made off with many of the treasures the ship ...

The Incan Temple of the Sun in Cusco has long been a visual and cultural jewel of the ancient empire. But there’s even more ...

British archaeologists recently helped uncover multistory buildings from the ancient Egyptian city Imet in the Nile Delta, ...

Studies have shown that Lake Ohrid, on the Albanian and North Macedonian border, is over one million years old, making it the oldest lake in Europe. It seems only fitting, then, that it would also be ...

Texas archaeologists Arlen Chase and Diane Chase recently uncovered the 4th-century tomb of Te' K'ab Chaak, the earliest ...

Archaeologists have located the site of a historic friendly-fire incident that nearly cost George Washington his life.