The mighty temple of a little known Maya Kingdom, and the undisturbed tomb of its…

Tales of the French Foreign Legion in the deserts of North Africa have fired the…

Inspired by an engaging new book about women in the Ancient World, Christopher Catling asks:…

A fossilised face and two lower jaws excavated in Kenya may confirm that Homo erectus,…

Construction work in the ruins of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City has uncovered a unique burial…

The well-preserved wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman merchant ship carrying hundreds of clay amphorae has…

Archaeologists have mapped the entire streetplan of a lost Roman town, revealing that what was…

Another sunken vessel recently rediscovered is the Terra Nova, which carried Captain Robert Scott on…

Archaeological sites that take years to record using traditional methods could be mapped in minutes,…

In a rather more earthbound initiative, Google Maps staff in Mexico have pedalled tricycles mounted…

Clay cylinders from the Jordan Valley, traditionally interpreted as 8,000-year-old ritual ‘phallic objects’, have been…

Previously thought to be little more than hillfort, is this actually the first Iron Age…