Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When archaeologists studying a fifth-century Swedish site found a human skeleton lying on the floor of a house, they wondered why ...

The Treasure of Villena. (Municipal Archaeological Museum of Villena) Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the ...

There's much more to this island than a bird's eye view can give. (University of Southampton) Artificial islands may seem a modern invention better associated with Dubai and China, but in Scotland, ...

A chance discovery in Poland in 1933 revealed a prehistoric settlement. This ancient site, preserved for over two thousand ...

Peru's first great empire left no written records. Now, archaeologists are piecing together who the Wari were with the help ...

The funerary marker, which surfaced on a New Orleans property last year, once belonged to a Roman soldier who died nearly ...

A medieval notebook found in a German latrine could reveal details of everyday life and commerce more than 700 years ago.

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At the appropriately named "Corpse Point" in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, the permafrost is melting, ...