A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

From a 9,000-year-old precision-engineered hammer to evidence of the Trojan War and many more... The year's most captivating archaeological finds included an untouched Etruscan tomb, pristine Bronze ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life in the citadel. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Once again, it has been great year for archeology and historical research. Groundbreaking discoveries were made all over the globe, from Egypt’s Valley of the Kings and the ruins of Pompeii to the ...

Many fascinating discoveries and new insights into the curiosities of the ancient world have been unearthed throughout 2025. Archaeological findings over the last 12 months have helped push back the ...