A field in Dorset that had puzzled archaeologists for the best part of a decade has finally given up its secret. Bournemouth University academic Dr Derek Pitman first came across substantial walls ...

An old, flattened piece of limestone inscribed with a crisscross of grooves looks like the board for a game, but for nearly a century, no one knew how the game was played. Now, researchers have used ...

After the British warship HMS Tyger ran aground on a coral reef near Garden Key, Florida, on January 13, 1742, even dumping its cannons overboard couldn’t set it free. Decades later, those same ...

In archaeological artifact photography, strong lighting or flashes are used to clearly record the shape and surface of the ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today. The ruins of the ...