SHINCLIFFE, ENGLAND—In 1983, archaeological divers located the wooden framework of a structure at the bottom of the River Wear in Shincliffe, just outside of Durham. The underwater team had been ...

A decades old space mystery has been solved by an international team of astronomers led by Professor Martin Barstow of the University of Leicester and President-elect of the Royal Astronomical Society ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Following a 2019 fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, archaeological restoration work uncovered 100 unknown burials under the cathedral, ...

Ancient puzzles that archaeologists have quietly failed to solve for decades ...

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