The ancient Greeks founded Naples in the first millennium BCE. What legends exist about its origin, and what does archaeology reveal?

A range of events will take place in Somerset from Saturday, July 19 to Sunday, August 3 as part of the biggest archaeological celebration in the UK.

By Peter Edwell for The ConversationStanding in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo voices from 1,800 years ago.

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...

The Kansas Historical Society’s archaeological field school this year gave volunteers a chance to dig into the state's ...

People lived in the Vancouver area long before the 21st century. And urban archaeology is used to uncover the city’s secrets from the past, including those of Indigenous people and from the 19th and 2 ...

The Williamsburg Bray School is one of the oldest schools in the United States to educate Black students. Archeologists ...

Sam Linford and Ali Livesay helped create a new Bradbury Science Museum exhibit, which officially opens June 25 and ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Visitors to Shoal Creek Park may notice a unique sight—students with shovels, tents dotting the field and the quiet hum of ...