Ochre remains, dating back 18,000 years ago, were unearthed at the Fodongdi site in Lincang, Southwest China's Yunnan ...

Deep inside a remote Mexican cave, a pair of explorers thought they had stumbled on modern litter, the kind of plastic and ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

A trove of archaeological artifacts - including thousands of ancient coins - has been discovered during excavations at a home ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Norway's melting glaciers are revealing objects from the Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the medieval era. Some ancient artifacts are mysteries, but they still indicate trade routes through the mountains ...

National Geographic Explorer Peter Campell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

Two thieves donned diving gear to pilfer hundreds of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts from the bottom of the sea in Egypt, according to the country’s interior ministry. Egyptian authorities say the ...

Efforts to repatriate Greek artifacts from abroad, such as the campaign to reclaim the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum, tend to get all the attention. But the biggest, latest news on the ...

Abu Khaled knows the worth of things. As a small-time smuggler living along the porous border between Syria and Lebanon, he has dabbled in antiquities as much as the cigarettes, stolen goods and ...