Reopening graves and interacting with the dead was considered a dangerous act,” but the 900-year-old burial mound was tampered with anyway.

Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in Ontario. Now, ...

A mammoth tusk boomerang discovered in Poland is approximately 42,000 years old, potentially making it the oldest known ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they found.

Since the 1830s, a mysterious and massive runestone in the woods of Oklahoma has fascinated and baffled those who've ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

A manual of gothic stone carving: forming no I of a series of manuals of gothic ornament. by Parker, John Henry Publication date 1855 Publisher John Henry Parker Collection glasgowschoolofart; ...

On a small rise less than 20 miles south of Tbilisi, Georgia, a clutch of round, mud-brick houses rises from a green, fertile river valley. The mound is called Gadachrili Gora, and the Stone Age ...

Archaeologists have long puzzled over stone spheroids—round limestone objects found at ancient sites across the globe. These artifacts, though simple in shape, have sparked debate for ...

A 200-year-old Swedish runic carving found in Canada turns out to be the Lord’s Prayer — and may be linked to eerie celestial signs at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion.

The wear of the stone suggests it could be as old as the 1600s, but experts only have the evidence of Swedish speaking individuals being in the region some 200 years ago.