After a difficult year, it would certainly be nice to find a stash of gold coins worth more than $300,000 in the walls of a house or a rare dish worth $1.7 million tucked away in a drawer. We’re often ...

Every year, we delve back through our coverage to find the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of the year, whether by a complete amateur, or as the result of years of careful study by a team ...

Global lockdowns and political strife made it a tough year for archaeologists, at least in terms of getting out there on excavation sites. But despite what many might think, archaeology isn't just ...

A metal tag identifying an enslaved laborer found earlier this year on what’s now the College of Charleston campus is among a national archeology magazine’s top discoveries of the year. During an ...

Welcome to the Art Angle, a podcast from Artnet News that delves into the places where the art world meets the real world, bringing each week’s biggest story down to earth. Join host Andrew Goldstein ...

From the rediscovery of the “Lost Golden City” in Egypt to North America’s oldest footprints, 2021 reshaped our understanding of human history. This video revisits Kayleigh’s personal top five finds, ...

Archaeologists are interested in moments in time when big changes happened, such as when free-wandering hunters and gatherers settled down and took up farming; or when small dispersed farming ...

When a team of researchers led by Clément Nicolas, an archaeologist at Bournemouth University, first saw archival photographs of a broken schist slab held at France’s National Archaeology Museum, they ...