While researchers once viewed the ancient scholars as passive instruments of the king who lacked any independence, Assyriologists including Jennifer Singletary, until recently a researcher at the ...

A fifth century amulet depicting the demon-fighting King Solomon has been found by archaeologists in Turkey, referencing a ...

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what's ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Egyptian burial chamber featuring two "intricately painted" wooden coffins, among ...

From the remains of five Viking ships in Denmark to the excavation of an ancient rubbish dump in Westray, uncover the finds that have revealed an enormous amount about Viking life. In 1992 Mark ...

An archaeological dig near one of Cumbria's busiest roads ... by the modern A66 through the Eden Valley and Stainmore Pass was ancient even when the Romans formalised it with their own road ...

A painted ancient Egyptian limestone fragment dating to around 2500 B.C. depicts servants baking bread (Erich Lessing/Art Resource) Nothing lives forever—except maybe yeast, which can go dormant ...

Archaeologists have begun a dig at an ancient ironworks where they hope to discover whether it dates from the Roman or Viking period. Local experts believe the Egremont site in Wirral, Merseyside ...

But the ancient spade was still very fragile, and the team needed get it out in one piece, so it could be conserved and a 3D model could be made. Wessex Archaeology said the ancient discovery now ...