DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...

In the midst of modern construction, archaeologists search for evidence of the city’s earliest days ...

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA—Live Science reports that prehistoric burials have been discovered in Malaysia’s Nenggiri Valley. Zuliskandar Ramli of the National University of Malaysia said that the ...

TRUJILLO, PERU—Live Science reports that the remains of two children, an adolescent, and an adult have been unearthed in a structure that may have been a temple at the site of Queneto, which is ...

WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—Archaeologists have found possible evidence for the presence of enslaved gardeners at the eighteenth-century home of John Custis IV, a wealthy tobacco plantation owner who ...

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—According to a Xinhua report, a sandstone door guardian statue, or Dvarapala, has been uncovered near the second gate at the Banteay Prei temple in northwestern Cambodia’s ...

NORFOLK, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, an archway was discovered during conservation work in St. George’s Guildhall, a medieval guildhall in the town of King’s Lynn that was ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

Versions of the same Bronze Age structure pop up all around Ireland and throughout the United Kingdom. Archaeologists, however, still have not agreed on their purpose. On a typically misty morning ...

Researchers from the collaborative IMPERO project, which traces the movement of people along the Ombrone River in Tuscany, have unearthed a rare Etruscan grave that had remained undisturbed for ...

A large-scale excavation in the middle of Berlin has uncovered artifacts and structures dating back eight centuries, including the foundations and machinery of the city’s first electrical plant ...

Surtshellir, a lava tube in western Iceland, is one of many with signs of human use, but presents a puzzle for archaeologists. Was it a hideout for bandits or the feared home of a mythical fire giant?