That was the case recently when a remarkable discovery from the Copper Age was made during an otherwise routine dig for a new ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

Fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world were found in an ancient Norwegian burial ground ... possible that the Hole stones started as one grave marker, which was later broken into pieces ...

While archaeologists in Norway were excavating an ancient burial ground, they found themselves looking at a pile of rocks. Their attention settled on one reddish slab, which they identified as the ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what ...

In many ancient ... s grave contained funerary tokens which seemed to confirm her elite status within the Neolithic community. Buried alongside her were mother-of-pearl jewelry and stone necklaces.

Highway workers found an ancient Roman cemetery, including a grave filled with a curious substance ... According to officials, the coffin, made of stone and carved by hand, had been "undisturbed ...

Above us, a corbelled stone ceiling arches towards an oval oculus ... All known barrows have been plundered long ago by 18th ­or 19th-century grave robbers. In the last 10 years, a handful ...

Archaeologists found the ancient graveyard during construction work and, so far, have excavated less than half of it.

RAKSHA DAVE: A very long time ago in ancient Britain ... RAKSHA: We think Stone Age people believed his grave was a magical place, and visited the cave from miles around. PHIL: He was obviously ...