Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Deep beneath the French countryside, a set of faint engravings on a cave floor is forcing archaeologists to rethink when ...

While Stonehenge is viewable only from a distance, Britain is dotted with roughly 800 lesser-known stone circles. A favorite ...

On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people took a walk through grassy fields to a remote Bronze Age stone circle ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, located on the west coast of the United Arab Emirates. This area contains traces ...

Now, a new DNA analysis of a sprawling set of ancient feline remains reveal that the precursors to modern housecats ...

The Stones of Stenness, a brood of lichen-encrusted megaliths in the far north of the British Isles, could be mistaken for a latter-day work of land art, one with ominous overtones. The stones stand ...

Twenty years after its discovery, archaeologists are finally revealing the secrets of Semiyarka, a Bronze Age settlement in Kazakhstan that may have been a center of exchange and power around 1600 B.C ...

A Swedish plano-convex ingot once thought to be from the Bronze Age was revealed through chemical and isotopic testing to belong to the Iron Age. Its composition closely matches Iron Age finds from ...

The lost city is notable not only for its construction, but its metallurgical production, too. Archaeologists have discovered a long-lost Bronze Age city. The settlement exhibits advanced urban ...

Today all that’s left of the ancient city of Semiyarka are a few low earthen mounds and some scattered artifacts, nearly hidden beneath the waving grasses of the Kazakh Steppe, a vast swath of ...

An expansive ancient city has been unearthed in central Asia, shedding light on the area's industrial history and ranking as "one of the most remarkable archaeological discoveries in this region for ...