The ship’s cargo included 2,000 pure gold coins and tens of thousands of pounds of copper ingots, almost all intact and sparkling beautifully in the Namibian sun.
The figure, carved into a hill in the English countryside, has recently undergone scientific testing, shedding light on its origins.
After years of studies, scientists believe that they’ve solved the mystery of where Neolithic people sourced the stones used to make Stonehenge.
Archaeologists are describing their new discovery as the “largest prehistoric structure ever found” in Britain.
Archaeologists have been left with “many questions”, following a strange discovery in a pair of funerary mounds.
How we think about the mammoth has changed considerably over the millennia. Many years ago, it was quite a catch.
Archaeologists were elated at the discovery of what they thought was a 4 500-year-old stone circle. This didn’t end well for them.
If you have ever laid eyes on Angkor Wat you’ll know it’s a thing of real beauty, but now a new discovery is shaking up everything historians thought they knew.
Residents of Noordhoek got more than they bargained for when they found a skull during a beach clean-up over the weekend.
Archaeologists have opened the coffin of Swedish king Erik IX, who was murdered in 1160, to examine his DNA. While that in itself is pretty awesome, the stuff they found inside his casket was better.
It’s tough being an archaeologist. You spend months out in the field trying to pick away the sands of time, often finding nothing. And even when you do find something, it’s tough to get people excited. Well, the hard work may have paid off, as archaeologists have uncovered an entire city in the dust of Israel.
Nope, Stonehenge wasn’t used as a setting for sun-worshipping or sacrifices, as much as we wish it had been. Archaeologists have just unearthed a missing “piece of the jigsaw” to shed light on the real purpose of England’s greatest prehistoric site.
Heracleion was once believed to be nothing more than a myth, a legend set far beneath the blue ocean. Ten years after divers stumbled upon its treasures deep beneath the ocean, archaeologists have produced a scientific rendering of what life in the city may have looked like.
Julius Caesar, the most prominent and famous of all the Roman rulers was stabbed on the 15th of March, 44BC – known as the Ides of March. We know this thanks to the many classical texts detailing the event. For the first time, archaeologists suspect they may have found physical evidence.
Archaeologists, working in Florence, are convinced that they have uncovered the remains of the woman believed to have posed for Leonardo Da Vinci’s famed Mona Lisa portrait.