Archeology

Metal detectorist Adam Staples said 10-year-old George Henderson "must have the Midas touch" after he found the object 10 minutes into a metal detecting trip.

Over 160 of the sea creatures were found in one of the largest offerings found in the Templo Mayor in Mexico City to date.

Using atmospheric muons, created when charged particles from space strike the upper atmosphere, researchers aim to probe deep within the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The stone is a relic of the Picts, a community known for painting bodies with dye, which resisted Roman invasion in Scotland before the first millennium.

Officials said the explosive was a Parrott shell and was located about 10 inches below the surface of the battlefield.

The Crocodile Research Coalition's Marisa Tellez told Newsweek it has long been suspected that crocs were not feared by the Maya, whose empire is thought to have peaked between A.D. 250 to A.D.900.

"Ostraca" were used for everything from receipts to notepads 2,000 years ago.

"These features provide an emerging source for reconstructing important aspects of ancient mobility and social and economic connectivity," a researcher said.

The Bronze Age board had markings and holes, and was discovered as part of an archeological dig in the Middle East.

Sediment samples from an underground toilet in ancient Jerusalem have provided understanding of how the society's upper echelon citizens may have lived.

The 13-year-old girl in Hertfordshire in the U.K. turned up a further 64 artifacts dating back to 1300 BC.

The newly discovered tombs in the necropolis had been disturbed by roadworks.

The findings suggest that tobacco was used by people 9,000 years before scientists previously thought.

The establishment served readymade delicacies—including snails, duck, and fish—to Pompeii's poorest residents.

Researchers discovered the remarkably well-preserved medieval burial site after beachgoers spotted "bits of bone" sticking out from the sand.

"Fatal shark attacks are rare today and the chances of discovering an archaeological case are incredibly small," explained researcher J. Alyssa White.

Recent studies on finds from a 2020 excavation of the Oaklawn Cemetery are closer to be being affirmatively identified as artifacts left behind from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Archaeologists have discovered 30 curse tablets down an ancient Athenian well. The tablets call on the gods of the underworld to do their bidding.

CT scans of four ancient skulls suggest the early settlers of North America were more biologically diverse than previously thought.

When bushfires fires hit the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape in southwest Victoria, they removed vegetation and revealed previously hidden sections of an ancient aquaculture system.

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has finished documenting ancient graffiti found in a small cave in the South Sinai.

Archaeologists have described a "unique" find dating back thousands of years ago to Neolithic Europe. Researchers say it is just the second ring of its kind found in Denmark.

Archeologists digging in Mexico southeastern state of Yucatán discovered a centuries-old palace built by the Mayans more than 1,000 years ago.

Prehistoric Europeans used amber as a status symbol, an archaeologist who worked on the study told Newsweek.

The artifacts were found during an excavation in eastern Cairo's Matariya neighborhood.

The warrior was believed to be aged between 40 and 50 and his right arm had been amputated around the mid-forearm.

This skeleton is one of only two skeletons ever found with evidence of having died in this gruesome manner.

This could be the oldest depiction of evil or a demon.

More than 500 years ago, a mass sacrifice of 140 children occurred in what is now Peru.

Scientists are left wondering how the coins remained hidden for so long.