You can compare throwing one of these ancient dice to a coin toss – although this discovery also underscores that dice are much older than coins.

Famed archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass believes he is close to discovering the long-lost tomb of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. Hawass, an Egyptologist and the former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, ...

How eight middle schoolers and their coach turned a student challenge into a real-world rescue for researchers ...

Some retired MLB players become coaches. Some retired MLB players become broadcasters. The former Phillies star chose a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the excavation site inside the church in Maastricht, the Netherlands - Piroschka Van De Wouw/Reuters An archaeologist ...

A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He's done it by sailing like one. Archaeologist Greer Jarrett, a doctoral student at Lund University, has ...

A University of Wyoming archaeologist is the lead author on a new paper that has potentially upended what we know about the history of humanity in ...

Workers were just starting construction on a new apartment complex in northeastern Brazil when they began finding human bones and pottery shards, their edges worn smooth by time. Soon, excavations at ...

The marble block was found in a hall of baptism called a photisterion. It may shed light on “a stage of the early Christian ...

STEUBENVILLE — Woda Cooper Companies is trying to find a state-certified archaeological consultant to “hand-dig” areas of concern at a Washington Avenue construction site after grave markers from a ...