A small team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, Michigan State University, and the Desert Research Institute, all in the U.S., has used radiocarbon dating of bone ...

European researchers recently discovered several ancient shipwrecks in Greek waters, some of which date back thousands of years. The shipwrecks were discovered in the waters surrounding the island of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amateur archaeologists excavating a wooded site have uncovered stunning artifacts dating back to the 5th century, History Scout ...

Long buried under the woods of west central Louisiana, stone tools, spearpoints and other evidence of people living in the area as long as 12,000 years ago have become more exposed and vulnerable, due ...

One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the last 10,000 years took place at the Greek island of Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean Sea, but its dating during the late 17th or 16th century BCE remained ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as 400,000 years ago, making it one of only a handful of sites from the ...

What started out as an exploration of a Roman garrison has uncovered artifacts dating back to the time of the Assyrian Empire. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on July 30, 2023.) We take you now ...