The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town ...

When you were a child, you probably had toys such as plastic or porcelain dolls and plush, furry animals that may have included mythical beings such as unicorns. You may have created skits in ...

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 ...

VAN, TURKEY—Newsweek reports that three well-preserved bronze shields and a helmet were discovered at Ayanis, a 2,700-year-old Urartian citadel on a hill overlooking Lake Van in eastern Turkey ...

LUND, SWEDEN—According to a Phys.org report, Mikael Fauvelle of Lund University and his colleagues suggest that Scandinavia’s hunter-gatherers belonging to what is known as the Pitted Ware ...

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 ...

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

ULYTAU, KAZAKHSTAN—Ten medieval burial mounds, or kurgans, have been discovered in central Kazakhstan, according to a Live Science report. Archaeologist Zhanbolat Utubaev of the Margulan ...

HATALOV, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a 5,000-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in eastern Slovakia by researchers from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of ...

Map showing 273 shipwrecks in the Irish Sea(Courtesy Innes McCartney) Now, an expansive archaeological survey has revealed new information about hundreds of ships whose stories had been ...

At its height in the seventh century b.c., the Neo-Assyrian Empire stretched west to east from Egypt to Elam, a kingdom in southern Iran, and from Iraq in the south to the northern reaches of the ...

LONDON, ENGLAND—Artnet News reports that archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) working ahead of road construction in southern England uncovered two wells dug by the Romans ...