Paleoanthropologist Stephanie Baker relates the amazing discovery of the world's oldest known Homo erectus, an early human ancestor.

The discoveries that rocked Christian scholarship.

Centuries before the construction of the pyramids of Egypt and the Stonehenge circle in England, ancient people began creating massive monumental earthworks in North America.

Excavations of princely tombs are shedding new light on a formative time before the high florescence of the Mycenaean civilization.

Recent excavations in Jerusalem have uncovered more evidence that the infamous Roman prefect left a lasting visible mark on the city he governed at the time of Jesus.

In the high plateaus of eastern Algeria, some of the earliest evidence for human stone tool-making is emerging.

Fossil evidence bearing on the earliest peopling of the Americas.

Archaeological excavations at Jamestown in Virginia have yielded new material finds related to the Western Hemisphere’s first representative government, and the beginnings of slavery in the British colonies.

Writing for young readers, author Laura Scandiffio relates the detailed story about the remarkable burial discovery of King Richard III and what it says about the real king, beyond...

Scholars on the ground claim to have finally discovered remains of the legendary Holy Grail of medieval cities in present-day Ethiopia.