Whale oil was an essential fuel of the Industrial Revolution, used to lubricate machinery, soften fabric and light city ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the identity of a 1700s vessel shipwrecked in Orkney. Expert say the vessel discovered on the ...

Archaeologists recently discovered two megalithic tombs built 5,500 years ago in Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park in ...

No one was sure of the final resting place of the French Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay, according to Popular Mechanics.

New research might have uncovered the shocking truth behind how Stonehenge's massive Bluestones were transported.

Archaeologists in Konuralp Düzce, Turkey, have uncovered Byzantine-era ruins in the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium.

Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They ...

And more recent research suggests beer was accidentally discovered as early as 10,000 B.C.E., or over 12,000 years ago by the ...

Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster fragments, with no picture on the box to guide them.

The 500-year-old clue got them started, but archaeologists needed more modern georadar techniques to finish the job.

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.