Archaeology experts who painted over 2,000-year-old Amazonian tribal rock carvings for birthday selfies have been censured by antiquities officials in Brazil. The academics, named in local media as Professor Gisella…
Archaeologists in China have unearthed hundreds of priceless Ming Dynasty porcelain dating back hundreds of years and other priceless relics from an ancient shipwreck site at the bottom of the…
Viking kings and nobles were among the first in history to put glass into the windows of their timber-framed longhouses, archaeologists have discovered. Early glass windows are usually associated with…
Secrets of Egypt's first-ever female pharaoh have been unearthed after archaeologists unlocked hidden treasures of her ancient royal grave. The status of Queen Meret-Neith, a former consort in Egypt's First…
Archaeologists in Argentina have uncovered a stunning fossil footprint of a giant bird that roamed the Atlantic coast about eight million years ago. The ancient bird, known as 'Rionegrina pozosaladensis',…
Archaeologists examining prehistoric artwork of footprints up to 50,000 years old in southwest Africa have been able to determine the type of animals and even their likely ages by cooperating…
A perfectly preserved child's shoe unearthed from a 2,000-year-old Iron Age mine has been hailed by archaeologists as a first step in cracking the era's social history, The simple shoe…
A previously unknown fossilised snail species has been discovered by archaeologists working on a railway construction site in Florida, and they have named it Carychium floridanum in honour of the…
Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed the fossilised skeletons of humans' 850,000-year-old cannibal ancestors in a historic discovery. The Homo Antecessor remains, the first to be dug up in 20 years,…
One of the earliest examples of a human tool made from wood has been found after archaeologists unveiled a 300,000-year-old double-pointed stick that would have been used as a hunting…