Archaeology, the study of human history through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts, often unearths enigmatic discoveries that challenge our understanding of the past. These ...

In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed field and received a signal. What he unearthed over the following days would ...

Recent archaeological discoveries in El Salvador are challenging long-held assumptions about pre-Columbian societies in Central America. A team of researchers has unearthed a collection of clay ...