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The discovery of an Anglo-Saxon monastery in Berkshire, unearthed this summer by archaeologists, gives unique insight into the life of one of the most powerful women of the Early Middle Ages and her likely final resting place.

Credit: University College Dublin An archaeological site in Dublin with an unusually large collection of cattle remains could potentially ch...

A Viking sword discovered by metal detectorists in Norway is revealing new insights into voyages in the North Sea. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Sunstones have been described in Viking tales from the 13th–14th century AD, used as a navigation tool for transatlantic crossings to the new lands of Greenland and Iceland, and possibly even North America, as confirmed by the discovery of the archaeological site of l’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

A 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite found in a field in Gloucestershire, England, is likely a remnant of cosmic debris left over from the birth of the solar system and could answer questions about how life began on Earth. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

CAIRO (Reuters) - Divers have discovered rare remains of a military vessel in the ancient sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion - once Egypt’s largest port on the Mediterranean - and a funerary complex illustrating the presence of Greek merchants, the country said on Monday.

Shortly before his violent death in 400 B.C., a man — whose remains are known as Denmark’s famous bog body “Tollund Man” — ate a meal of porridge and fish, a new study finds.

A team of underwater archaeologists from the European Institute of Sunken Archaeology (IEASM), have discovered an ancient warship in the submerged city of Heraklion in Abi Qir Bay, Egypt. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Find could prove there were human settlements in area centuries before city was founded

The Temple of the Moon is an Inca ceremonial site, constructed in the open face of a shallow cave near the ancient city of Machu Picchu in Peru. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Archaeologists excavating the ancient port settlement and cemetery of Marea in Egypt have discovered a complex urban precinct. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Chile’s Chinchorro mummies, the oldest in the world to have been purposefully preserved by humans, were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on Tuesday.

This article is a case study in doing new things with old data. Combining original notebooks with a new digital survey of Tholos IV, a comprehensive and accurate 3D GIS model has been created.

The vessel was discovered during an underwater reconnaissance expedition in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Palermo in Sicily, Italy.

The land mass that linked Britain to continental Europe was rich in early human life until it flooded

‘Incredible’ discoveries at submerged ancient city off coast of Egypt have lain untouched

Neanderthals, long perceived to have been unsophisticated and brutish, really did paint stalagmites in a Spanish cave more than 60,000 years ago, according to a study published on Monday.

Items smuggled out after 2003 invasion include 3,500-year-old Gilgamesh clay tablet

Over 17,000 looted ancient artefacts recovered from the United States and other countries were handed over to Iraq’s Culture Ministry on Tuesday, a restitution described by the government as the largest in the country’s history.