A finely decorated copper alloy strap end uncovered in Halesworth, Suffolk, is offering new insight into the craftsmanship, dress, and daily life of the Late Anglo-Saxon period.

Archaeologists excavating the burial mound at Herlaugshaugen on the island of Leka have confirmed that the site once contained a ship, settling a long-standing question surrounding one of Norway’s best-known prehistoric monuments.

New archaeological research at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal in Guatemala suggests that ordinary people may have played a meaningful role in shaping political power, challenging the long-standing view of absolute divine kingship.

Archaeologists have uncovered a substantial stratified deposit within an early Roman well, providing new insights into the development of the Roman city of Colonia Ulpia Traiana in Xanten, Germany.

A new genetic study has revealed striking details about the practice of human sacrifice in early Korean society, suggesting that those buried alongside elites were not outsiders, but often part of the same extended communities.

Archaeologists in north-western Poland have overturned a long-standing local legend after uncovering the remains of a German soldier in a forest near the small West Pomeranian settlement of Zdanów, historically known as Zankhof.

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has recovered several human fossils from the Sac Actun underground river complex in Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Recent excavations near the village of Steklno in Poland’s West Pomeranian region have revealed evidence from the final months of the Second World War.

A preserved Neanderthal fossil is providing new insights into how this ancient human species adapted to the cold climates of Ice Age Europe.

A study, led by Dr. Marina Lozano of IPHES-CERCA, has found dental remains belonging to three Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in Abreda Cave.

Archaeologists have conducted a study of lithic material from the Pilauco and Los Notros sites in north-western Patagonia, revealing evidence of human occupation in the region prior to the Younger Dryas period.

A new study led by the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Institute of Archaeology of the CAS suggests that human occupation of Europe first took place 1.4 million years ago.

A remarkable discovery in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology has brought to light thirty previously unknown verses by Empedocles, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the work of one of ancient Greece’s most enigmatic thinkers.

The Odyssey is one of the foundational works of ancient Greek literature, set during the archaic period of Classical antiquity. It is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the poet Homer.

A page long believed to be missing from the famed Archimedes Palimpsest has been rediscovered at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France, offering scholars new opportunities to study one of antiquity’s most important mathematical manuscripts.

A rare late medieval “one-and-a-half-handed” sword has been unveiled at the Museum of Miechów Landm, Poland, after being donated anonymously.

A local fossil hunter exploring Stevns Klint on the Danish island of Zealand has discovered a rare blob of fossilised vomit, also known as regurgitalite.

A fossilised bone discovered in the legacy collections from the archaeological site of Mycenae represents one of the earliest known examples of ancient fossil hunting.

Scientists have identified the skeletal remains of Panthera spelaea at the Notarchirico site in southern Italy.

A study of the Serrote do Letreiro Site (meaning “Signpost Hill”) in Brazil’s Paraíba State has led to the discovery of an assemblage of petroglyphs alongside dinosaur tracks.

A new study published in the journal PLOS ONE presents new evidence that the volcanic eruption of Minoan Thera (modern-day Santorini) occurred before the reign of Pharaoh Ahmose I, overturning long-held views of Bronze Age chronology.

In 2024, researchers from Australia's University of Queensland discovered a giant 1,200-tonne rock more than 200 metres inland on the island of Tongatapu.

Despite the name, blue lava is not actually molten lava, but rather an extremely rare natural phenomenon caused by the combustion of sulphuric gases emitted from certain volcanoes and fumarole vents.

One of Turkey’s most impressive geological wonders is Pamukkale (meaning "cotton castle"), renowned for its sinter terraced formations created by calcite-rich springs.One of Turkey’s most impressive geological wonders is Pamukkale (meaning "cotton castle"), renowned for its sinter terraced formations created by calcite-rich springs.

According to a new study published in the journal PLOS One, the Gobi Desert, now one of the driest and most forbidding places on Earth, was once a land of lakes and wetlands that sustained human life over 8,000-years-ago.

Archaeologists have found traces of a climate disaster 1500-years-ago that might have inspired the legend of Ragnarök from Norse mythology.

A large-scale transcontinental river system from the Eocene era, dating back 44 to 34 million years ago, has been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice.

A recent study published in GeoJournal proposes that Seahenge was built to conduct rituals aimed at prolonging the summer during the extreme climatic changes of the 3rd millennium BC.

Researchers, including members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, have extracted and analysed an ice core from the Weißseespitze peak in Tyrol, documenting millennia of climate and environmental history. The findings also highlight the rapid rate of glacier retreat in the Eastern Alps: compared to 2019, only about half of the ice mass remains on the summit today.

A vast prehistoric landscape now hidden beneath the North Sea may have supported forests and wildlife thousands of years earlier than scientists previously believed.

A recent archaeological study has renewed interest in the role of animals within the ceremonial and urban landscape of ancient Tenochtitlan.

In 2024, researchers from Australia's University of Queensland discovered a giant 1,200-tonne rock more than 200 metres inland on the island of Tongatapu.