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One ship to carry a huge legacy.
Scientists only had her knees to work with but are confident they belonged to the late queen.
Digs at one of the most amazing anthropological sites in the world come across something big.
Archaeologists have discovered a gigantic, 1,500-year-old stone monument in Kazakhstan.
It used to belong to a wealthy and powerful local.
They named it the Mud Dragon.
A drink to die for.
They say a giant sea creature destroyed it.
Nothing more binding than a document set in stone.
The epitome of Roman class -- before all hell broke loose.
The plants were so well preserved, they still contained THC-rich trichomes -- even after all this time!
A titanic footprint from a titan of a beast.
Coins issued in ancient Rome 1,700 years ago were found in Japan, some 6,000 miles from the Empire's capital.
The ancient gardens featured fountains, ponds, and a huge swimming pool.
Yes, this means there's 200-year-old brandy.
Archaeologists are still divided on what the finding actually means.
Scientists have unraveled the secrets of a 1,700-year-old scroll too old and damaged to unfurl.
The ancient bones could offer valuable DNA information from an ancient shipwreck victim.
Three thousand years ago, someone had a pretty bad day.
Found on the island of Okinawa, these hooks show fish has been on the menu longer than we've though before.
Blue-dyed cotton has always been in.
Archaeologists have unearthed an intact female figure carved from marble, dating from up to 10,000 years ago.
Searches in the Canadian Arctic have located the H.M.S. Terror, which mysteriously disappeared 168 years ago. The ship was found in pristine condition at the bottom of a bay.
This is the closest we've come to seeing an ancient Egyptian woman.
Modern archaeology is a lot like crime scene investigation.
The biggest fish in the pond.
It probably didn't go boom, but it's still an impressive find.
So it's like the opposite of a college textbook, then?
The mausoleum was likely built for a local king more than three millennia ago.
He wore a coat made from sheep and goat hides, but also a hat made from a bear's fur.
Archaeologists working on top of a Greek mountain have made a sinister discovery.
It's perhaps the stinkiest cheese in the world right now, after molding at the bottom of a shipwreck for centuries.
How did people get to America, and when? A new, 'pioneering and neat' study may have some answers.
The chilling diary of a monster.
It may or may not be Arthur's castle, but it's a monumental finding.
Short, round skulls were the norm then.
Looks like it's not always asteroids.
Not a modern-day disease after all.
The legends might have been true after all.
This ink is number 1. Literally.
The discovery highlights how trait functions can change with evolution.
After leaving its exoskeleton behind, the insect narrowly avoided amber entombment.
A skull fragment found in an old Buddhist temple is believed to have belonged to Buddha.
As they whizzed past ramparts, the holed-bullets whistled, "or more accurately gave off a mechanical buzzing sound eerily reminiscent of an agitated wasp," archeologists said.
Who needs Indiana Jones?
‘Theoretically the stuff is still edible - but we wouldn’t say it’s advisable’
Rhapta was one of the most prosperous cities on the African coast, and one of the last trading posts of the Roman Empire.
The oldest computer in the world was found a century ago, but scientists are still learning.
An archeologist studying Irish iron-age musical horns has found a very surprising correspondent of the ancient musical arts in Europe: these artistic practices, long considered to be dead, are still alive and well in south India.
It's way older than divers thought.
