MADISON, Wis. (AP) The Great Lakes frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes...

By Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter Archaeologists have been excavating a site they call the birthplace of Scotland's modern...

Archaeologists have discovered a paved surface under a double stone row that dates back thousands of years. The 590ft (180m) long path of mainly quartz rocks...

By Pete Cooper & Annabel Amos BBC News, Northamptonshire "Remarkable" discoveries during a multi-million pound renovation of a market square will not...

LIMA, Peru (AP) Some archaeologists describe Perus capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That's what some...

As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements. Recent field work...

By Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News The discovery of ancient wooden logs in the banks of a river in Zambia has changed archaeologists'...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The latest search for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has ended with 59 graves found and seven sets of remains...

Dozens of items that were found in a cave in southern Spain more than a century ago date from the Mesolithic era and are much older than previously thought,...

Neanderthals live on within us. These ancient human cousins, and others called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens ancestors. They...

Scientists have unearthed logs in Africa that are nearly a half-million years old, the remnants of large wooden structures crafted by our early ancestors....

NEW YORK (AP) Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that may be the oldest evidence yet of early humans building with wood. The...