Archaeologists in Denmark unveiled the world's largest medieval cog ship, discovered off Copenhagen after 600 years ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion were scratched over 2,000 years ago onto a corridor wall outside of a theater.

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Archaeologists say the 2,400-year-old ship is so well preserved that even the mast and rowers' benches have survived for millennia.

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

The researchers reached this conclusion after searching for the traces of potential ancient glaciers in rivers near ...

CT residents are invited to learn about recent archaeological discoveries and ongoing research across the state during an annual public lecture.

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

The cave paintings were discovered by an international team of researchers preserved in limestone caves on one of Sulawesi’s ...

The project, described by Pompeii officials as Bruits de couloir (“corridor whispers”), used Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a computational photography technique that photographs a surface ...