Metal detecting is on the rise, with a number of important finds being duly rewarded. Almost £140,000 has been paid to metal detectorists and other finders of Scotland’s ancient artefacts in the past ...

AN archaeological dig in a Ryedale village has unearthed secrets that could reshape our understanding of Roman and medieval life in North Yorkshire.

The necropolis of La Lentejuela, in the municipality of Teba (Málaga, Spain), has brought back to light, after more than five millennia of silence, one of the most monumental and best-preserved ...

In the rolling hills just outside Pittsburgh lies a Sunday morning ritual that transforms ordinary shoppers into modern-day treasure hunters – Trader Jack’s Flea Market in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.

The pottery piece that experts believe dates to the Early Bronze Age was likely both part of daily usage and held spiritual ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient site in Turkey that they say could predate the famous site of Göbekli Tepe.

Archaeologists say they've discovered an ancient, long-submerged Mediterranean port, but for the head of the mission, the ...

A surprising discovery has been made behind an inconspicuous hole in a wall at the Academic Museum of Art in Bonn: a roughly ...

Randy Haas, an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Wyoming, led a five-year international collaboration ...

A routine fire patrol, operating some 200 miles northwest of the country's capital, Astana, discovered a nearly foot-long ...

In 2008, researchers discovered a roughly 2.75-inch-long cow toe bone inside a building located in a worker settlement known ...