WROCŁAW, POLAND—According to a Science in Poland report, Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław and Piotr Osypiński of the Polish Academy of Sciences have identified 30 archaeological ...

PARIS, FRANCE—According to a Live Science report, human remains found in a sealed lead coffin beneath the nave of Notre Dame Cathedral have been identified as the French Renaissance poet Joachim ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA—According to a Newsweek report, a new study of the Horned Serpent Panel, a rock wall at the La Belle France site painted by the San people at least 200 years ago ...

Sixteen of the mysterious geoglyphs known as the Nazca Lines depict birds—more than any other type of plant or animal. A team of researchers from Japan recently set out to determine which bird ...

ISALO NATIONAL PARK, MADAGASCAR—According to a Phys.org report, Guido Schreurs of the University of Bern and his colleagues suggest that rock-cut terraces and chambers at the remote ...

GERSTETTEN, GERMANY—According to a report in The Independent, a 1,700-year-old grave was discovered in southern Germany during a construction project. The grave contained the remains of a 60 ...

In the midst of modern construction, archaeologists search for evidence of the city’s earliest days ...

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN—The site of the seventeenth-century home of John Doane, one of the first English families to settle in what is now the town of Eastham, Massachusetts, has been excavated by ...

VAN, TURKEY—Newsweek reports that three well-preserved bronze shields and a helmet were discovered at Ayanis, a 2,700-year-old Urartian citadel on a hill overlooking Lake Van in eastern Turkey ...

OSLO, NORWAY—According to a Science Norway report, a team of archaeologists used clues from an early nineteenth-century travel journal to find and begin to excavate the site of a shack on Norway ...

DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND—According to a report in The Belfast Telegraph, an excavation conducted in what is now the center of Derry uncovered city walls constructed between 1613 and 1619.

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...