Discovered off the coast of Spain, the ship was evidently smuggling cannons and silver ingots.

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage An anthropologist highlights the revolutionary role of ...

The classic image of an archaeologist is of someone unearthing a potsherd in Pompeii or opening a Viking grave to better ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Often when people hear the word "archaeologist," they think of an iconic film character like Indiana Jones or Lara Croft. However, ...

In Norway’s highest mountains, experts are scouring perilous terrain for pieces of the past, long stored in mint condition in ...

Chinese archaeologists work at the Mingtepa site in Uzbekistan Photo: Courtesy of Liu Tao. China's overseas archaeological ...

The Namibian genocide was one of the first genocides of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1908, tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people were killed under German colonial rule. Despite the ...

Scantily clad tomb raiders and cloistered scholars piecing together old pots -- these are the kinds of stereotypes of archaeology that dominate public perception. Yet archaeology in the new millennium ...

Beneath the crowded streets and ancient stone walls of Jerusalem, archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable tunnel that offers a new glimpse into the city’s past. Hidden for centuries beneath layers ...

Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small ...

The stone carving could be thousands of years old, possibly from the Bronze Age.

For more than a thousand years, the dingo’s howl echoed across the Australian landscape, a common sound for Indigenous peoples. Far from being just wild animals, dingoes became hunting partners, camp ...