The biggest archaeological discoveries of 2025 reveal lost cities, royal tombs, and breakthroughs reshaping history.

Here are 10 major findings about human ancestors and our close ancient relatives that scientists announced in 2025. A handful ...

Christian archaeology seeks to see, hear and touch the Word made flesh, Pope Leo XIV said, inviting the world's bishops and ...

Pope Leo XIV on Dec. 11 published a new apostolic letter in which he praised Christian archaeology as a work capable of ...

In the rolling hills of central Italy, about 43 miles northwest of Rome, a team of archaeologists led by Baylor University's ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Archaeologists uncovered the longest continuous section of the Hasmonean Kingdom wall foundation in Jerusalem, built decades ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

An undergraduate student was startled after a finely carved ancient head rolled out during a recent excavation – and seemed to smile back at her. The discovery, made at Skaill Farm on the Scottish ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Known as "tulas," the 60 artifacts are only the second discovery of this size to be found in Australia. Researchers think ...