The corpse referenced in the 800-year-old Norse book Sverris Saga may have been proven to be a real person. The story went that a body was thrown into a well to pollute the water supply of a ...

The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but recent research shows how it matches up to ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a rare 1,600-year-old bronze pendant depicting the biblical King Solomon defeating ...

The "King Solomon" pendant likely belonged to a cavalry soldier stationed at the ancient Byzantine city of Hadrianopolis.

This monument in Cornwall has been subject to much research but archaeologists have finally discovered new information about ...

Pete Herring, president of the Cornwall Archaeological Society ... "The monument retains its mystery: there are no Neolithic parallels for a stone-lined sunken and embanked rectangular enclosure ...

The return of the core, which was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958, enabled archaeologists to analyse its chemical composition. No-one knew where it was until Robert Phillips ...

Thirty men had to transfer to its tug before it sank. Dave Parham, professor of maritime archaeology, who led the investigation, said: "This is a rare example of a type of service vessel which was ...

the Apsara National Authority said. Angkor Thom is part of the Angkor Archaeological Park, a complex that sprawls over some 400 square kilometers (155 square miles), named a UNESCO World Heritage ...