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 ...

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 ...

An enormous, ancient handaxe, thought to be at least 300,000 years old, has been discovered in Kent in Southeast England during excavations ahead of the construction of a new school. Researchers from ...

IOWA CITY — Two centuries after Chief Black Hawk — a Sauk Indian leader — reportedly shot down an American flag at Fort Madison during the War of 1812, archaeologists pieced together where he may have ...

Charles "Chip" McGimsey is the state archaeologist for Louisiana and the director of the Division of Archaeology in the Office of Cultural Development, which is in the Department of Culture, ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a lost city dating back thousands of years – and newfound evidence suggests it may be the capital of a once-thriving civilization. The recent ...

Vikings were formidable Scandinavian warriors and sailors who, from around 800 to 1050 CE, raided, traded, and settled throughout northern Europe, Iceland, Greenland, and even as far as North America.

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 ...

As the habitual fog coasted through the Golden Gate Strait, seeming to erect a gray wall against the San Francisco’s Presidio, archaeologist Edward De Haro sifted through a batch of rock and soil, ...

If they’re lucky, archaeologists find bones, pottery, stone tools, beads and other sturdy remnants of the past. However, they’re less likely to unearth wooden artifacts, which tend to disintegrate ...