Archaeologists are doing excavation work along the A66 ahead of plans to widen the road.

Human remains from ancient mass grave reveal how people responded to world’s first pandemic - Ancient city’s burial capacity likely stretched to its limits ...

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a large ancient burial site during construction on a nuclear reactor.

Researchers say the findings will illuminate the history of “the least widely known and understood [burial rituals] in the region.” Archaeologists working in Morocco have unearthed three separate ...

The burial was discovered in the ancient cemetery of Ai-Lias at Knossos. It dates back to the Middle Minoan IIIB - Late ...

Archaeologists discovered an exceptionally well-preserved Stone Age dog skeleton buried with a 5,000-year-old bone dagger in ...

Archaeologists have discovered an untouched 2,500-year-old warrior burial mound. The skeleton held a rare bronze sword with unique motifs symbolizing Saka culture and spirituality. The find offers ...

An unusual and ancient Roman burial site unearthed in Turkey reveals reverence and respect for the dead — but also a powerful sense of dread among the living, according to a recent study. At the ...

The cemetery found in Suffolk consists of at least 11 Anglo-Saxon burial mounds (barrows) dating to the 6th–7th centuries AD. While acidic sandy soils have dissolved the bones, the excavators have ...

Archaeologists and scientists are converging on one of Christianity’s most contested questions: what really happened to Jesus ...