Three of 12 boat chambers at Herculaneum, with skeletons inside. Image: Norbert Nagel When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, hundreds of panicked people from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum ...

An amateur metal detectorist in England has unearthed a macabre piece of history: an 18th-century gold band with an inlaid enamel skull decoration. The ring, which was found in a field in Norfolk on ...

An American archaeology student on her first-ever dig found a rare piece of 9th-century gold. Yara Souza, who is from Orlando, Florida, is an international student at Newcastle University in the U.K.

The circular structure (indicated by the black line) and 20 pits located along its boundary (in red). Illustration: University of St. Andrews Archaeologists working on Salisbury Plain near Stonehenge ...