Biologist Héctor Ramírez-Chaves from the University of Caldas discovers Coendou vossi, a new porcupine species hidden for decades in Colombia's Magdalena Valley forests.

The relationship between archaeology and espionage is close. During the twentieth century, for example, both Britain and the United States recruited archaeologists working in some of the world’s most ...

"Archaeologists did not expect to find such well-preserved structures in such a harsh setting," geologist Yves Fouquet said.

Discovery Channel’s popular show “Expedition Unknown” was on site to document the discovery of 12 human skeletons and ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Divers have discovered a long-submerged wall some 7,000 years old under the sea off western France, scientists said Thursday.

Gravestone slabs, cauldrons and other items recovered from the "Mortar Wreck" are now on display at the newly reopened Poole ...

Colombia has recovered the first artefacts from the San José galleon, a 1708 shipwreck long dubbed the “holy grail of ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Based on a comprehensive study, researchers are now convinced the shafts were human-made, likely dug during the Late ...

Archaeologists in northeastern France have uncovered an ancient neighborhood beneath the town of Senon, where they found ...