A Roman temple, smithy and later Alamanni finds reveal new details about life around Kapersburg fort in Germany.

More than 5,000 animal bones reveal how an Iron Age household in Spain used livestock, hunted deer, and held special feasts.

Ancient DNA shows how inbreeding, hunting and habitat loss wiped out Scandinavia's aurochs, the wild ancestors of modern cattle.

A study of the Dendra tomb shows how Early Mycenaean mourners arranged bodies, metals and grave goods into carefully planned scenes.

A bronze seal ring showing Alexandria’s ancient Pharos lighthouse was found during underwater excavations in the city’s Eastern Harbor.

Twenty Anglo-Saxon coins found near the Vatican reveal trade, craftwork, and a thriving English community in early medieval Rome.

A newly identified dog name in an 18th Dynasty Egyptian tomb may refer to Anubis, the god of the underworld.

Archaeologists uncover a 1,000-year-old fortress, bishop’s palace, and rare 14th-century clay water pipe at Posa in Germany.

Ancient DNA suggests the ancestors of today’s Indigenous Americans arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago.

A structural study shows a 2,800-year-old palace in Ethiopia had walls strong enough to support far more floors than expected.

A study of 12 unusual burials reveals violence, possible sacrifice, and human remains placed inside Iron and Viking Age homes.

Archaeologists found 10,500-year-old worked wood beneath Germany’s Arendsee, offering new evidence of Mesolithic lakeside structures.

Ancient soils show maize farming in Belize began near wetlands 6,000 years ago before shifting to uplands as climate and populations changed.

Roman amulets survived the rise of Christianity. Patricia Kret studied 300 of them and found how crosses, Bible verses and old habits blended.

A new adult fossil from South Africa confirms Homo erectus lived there about 2 million years ago, alongside changing Paranthropus robustus.

A new Blyth Hoard in the Scottish Borders holds clay moulds and Scotland's first complete copper ingot, tied to the Peebles Hoard.

Archaeologists studied a life-size petroglyph and the 7th-century church built around it in Miseeda, Sudan, and traced 12,000 years of human activity.

A 100-meter pre-Roman aqueduct in Italy reveals planned farming, water control, and organized settlements before Roman rule.

Nearly 600 wooden remains from Abric Romaní show Neanderthals used wood for spears and shelter structures between 62,000 and 40,000 years ago.

New research shows how Greek settlers reshaped Libya’s coast to build Apollonia, the maritime port of ancient Cyrene.

Babylonian schools taught students about gods, rituals, and proper conduct as part of their training for religious and elite careers.

A 3,000-year-old bronze sword with a sharp edge was found at the submerged Bronze Age settlement of Lake Mezzano in Italy.

A new study reexamines a lost Egyptian artifact and finds evidence linking Meretneith to the royal title used by Egypt’s male rulers.

Study of 13,000-year-old spear points shows how Clovis and Cumberland groups managed stone resources in an unfamiliar landscape.

Archaeologists uncovered a 2,000-year-old Sarmatian warrior grave with a ring-pommel dagger on Ukraine's Arabatska Spit. See what it reveals.

Archaeologists found more than 30 houses and a child burial site at a 2,800-year-old Iron Age settlement in South Tyrol.

Three Teotihuacan glyphs found in a Mexican cave point to rituals linked to mountains, warriors and death.

A new study uses the 79 CE Vesuvius eruption to improve argon-argon dating and measure volcanic events with greater precision.

A 5,000-year-old arrow is among 48 prehistoric finds recovered as melting ice reveals older archaeology in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains.

A Roman bathhouse in ancient Antiochia became a large wine and olive oil production center during the Late Roman period.

Two intact Göbeklitepe burials help explain how human bones became scattered through the site's monumental buildings.

A Roman pyramid tomb in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis has a rare Greek mourning poem and funerary scenes from the ancient Egyptian afterlife.

More than 2.5 km of Inca roads hidden beneath dense forest have been mapped near Machu Picchu using drone-based LiDAR.

A severely deformed 1834 British sixpence reveals physical evidence of an unusual minting failure during the steam-press era.

Strontium isotope analysis shows young adults drove migration in Bronze Age Greece, while whole families rarely moved between communities.

New research shows Mississippian migrants brought specialized pottery skills and ancestral traditions to Tampa Bay centuries ago.

Archaeologists recover 934 Roman silver coins near Wesseling, forming Germany’s largest known hoard from Emperor Hadrian’s reign.

Archaeologists find cut-marked gomphothere bones and stone tools at a 13,000-year-old site beside ancient Lake Tagua Tagua in Chile.

Archaeologists find 45 Roman silver coins and a gold ring buried around CE 450 at an ancient farm on Sweden’s Gotland.

Archaeologists near Dortmund found rare Germanic workshops where Roman metal scrap was melted down and reused.

Archaeologists uncover a monumental seventh-century BCE Etruscan tomb with rare pottery, weapons and gold at ancient Vulci in Italy.

Archaeologists uncover a 2,000-year-old Roman kitchen in Segisamo, with Italian pottery, cooking tools, and evidence of local traditions.

More than 70 ancient Chinese musical instruments, including rare bronze bells and chimes, will go on display in the US.

A Roman soldier’s 1,750-year-old altar to Fortuna Redux reveals his faith and gratitude after returning safely to Binchester.

Bronze Age Sardinia supplied copper across Europe and the Mediterranean, revealing far-reaching trade networks from Scandinavia to the Levant.

More than 1,000 kg of Iron Age iron bars found in Austria reveal the scale of Late Iron Age production and trade.

Rare rock-cut tombs and a Roman camp found at Tell el-Yahudiya reveal changing burial practices in Egypt’s eastern Delta.

Laser scans reveal 43 ancient ship carvings at a Cyprus temple, showing a seafaring tradition that lasted from the Bronze Age into the Iron Age.