This painted penguin pot is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was made about 1,600 years ago and was collected in Peru in the late 19th century. The multicolored ceramic vessel is ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a trading city in Peru dating back some 3,500 years. The ancient city of Penico, ...

The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

The story of the myth of King Midas is one of the best known, that Greek monarch who turned everything he touched into gold, ...

The discovery of an incredible ancient shipwreck containing 2,000-year-old artefacts has been described as significant for ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science ...

A rare ceremonial wheel from the Iron Age has been unexpectedly discovered during the construction of a golf course in ...

Three Bronze Age cremations have been discovered underneath a popular playing field, as volunteer archaeologists resume ...

There is a ceremonial county in England called Norfolk. The history of the region is so vast that even nowadays, new ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

On the hillside of a Colorado valley ringed by bygone gold mines, a team of archaeologists-in-training wielding paintbrushes ...