Archaeologists found hundreds of burials in the Copper Age cemetery in Varna, Bulgaria, some of which were littered with gold ...

Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most significant discoveries ...

Excavations at the village of Fleury-sur-Orne in France’s Normandy region revealed a necropolis of 32 burial mounds dating to the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 4700 –4300 b.c.). The traces of ditches ...

Archaeologists excavating in the west Nile Delta have discovered a necropolis and industrial complex dating from the Roman Period. Thought to date from around the 5 th century B.C.E, the two complexes ...

While mainstream archaeology holds that true writing emerged around 3100–3400 BC with Sumerian cuneiform in Mesopotamia (the earliest fully developed script capable of expressing a full language), a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have uncovered a complex of ancient industrial workshops and part of a Roman-era necropolis in Egypt’s western Nile ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. Remains of a sprawling ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a significant extensive industrial complex dating to the Late Period (ca. 747–332 BCE) and early Ptolemaic Period (ca. 332–30 BCE), along with a portion of a Roman-era ...