Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left little trace. Unlike tools or bones, games rarely ...

The ruins of Calakmul are among the wonders of the Maya world. Dr. Pablo Mumary shares tips on getting there and what to see ...

Famed archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass believes he is close to discovering the long-lost tomb of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. Hawass, an Egyptologist and the former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early humans crossed Philippine seas 40,000 years ago, building coastal networks, fishing offshore, and developing maritime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the excavation site inside the church in Maastricht, the Netherlands - Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuters An archaeologist ...

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 ...

STEUBENVILLE — Woda Cooper Companies is trying to find a state-certified archaeological consultant to “hand-dig” areas of concern at a Washington Avenue construction site after grave markers from a ...

Archaeologists and students at Sterling Hill are tracing Sussex County’s human history back roughly 12,500 years through ...