Researchers accidentally found the handprint while preparing the artifact for display at the opening of Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum.

Babylon, once the richest city in the ancient world, continues to captivate historians and archaeologists even thousands of years after its fall. Founded in 1894 BCE, it reached its peak under the ...

Archaeologists have found an ancient Roman watchtower on the Danube frontier in Croatia, revealing how the empire defended its border.

Archaeologists digitally reconstructed tattoos on a 2,500‑year‑old mummy from Siberia, revealing Iron Age artistry and ...

A rare Anglo Saxon burial site next to a monastery once run by an 8th century English Queen has been discovered by ...

Forget Stonehenge and the Hill of Tara. These are the druid ruins and druid sites in Ireland and the UK that you can't miss.

Analysis of cauldrons nearly two and a half millennia-old has allowed archaeologists to create a near-perfect replica, ...

The 4,000-year-old handprint was discovered on the underside of a ‘soul house’—a structure shaped like a building with an ...

Archaeologists at a site in Bronze Age Thailand found evidence of betel nut chewing from 4,000 years ago, and they did it by ...

Archaeologists have used cutting edge techniques to reveal new information about the intricate tattoos of a woman that lived ...

A team of archaeologists from Switzerland used high-resolution digital imaging technology to examine tattoos invisible to the naked eye on a 2000-year-old ice mummy from Siberia.

It was one of the biggest pirate heists in history; 300 years later, Cape Cod archaeologists think they've found the ...