Excavations in Benin, Nigeria, have uncovered a record of the Kingdom, revealing royal quarters, shrines, and layers from the ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

Pre-construction archaeological work at Benin City, Nigeria. Excavation of two building plots for the Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria, provides new perspectives on the Kingdom of Benin ...

New imaging tech is revealing hidden 5,000-year-old rock art at Finland’s Astuvansalmi site, transforming how ancient Nordic paintings are seen and preserved.

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

Legends and rumors trail the elusive Queen of Sheba through the rock-hewn wonders and rugged hills of Ethiopia.

As the map shows, the naked land beneath the Antarctic ice sheet is a rugged land, covered in mountain ranges, gorges, and jagged terrain. Remarkably, one part of the bed found under the Byrd Glacier ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

Typhoon Halong destroyed dozens of feet of Alaska's most significant Yup'ik archaeological site, scattering potentially ...

A Yup'ik community near the Bering Sea in southwest Alaska was spared the widespread devastation other communities ...

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New archaeological research challenges long-held assumptions about why ancient hunter-gatherers built the monumental earthworks at Poverty Point in Louisiana some 3,500 years ago. Rather than serving ...