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

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 ...

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 ...

Pete Herring, president of the Cornwall Archaeological Society ... "The monument retains its mystery: there are no Neolithic ...

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 ...

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