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.

TRENČÍN, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that archaeologists are excavating a crypt at Trenčín Castle, which is located in western Slovakia. Historic records suggest that there may be ...

WATERLOO, BELGIUM—The Independent reports that a trench containing human and animal remains has been excavated at the site of a British field hospital at Mont-Saint-Jean farm in Belgium by ...

LUND, SWEDEN—According to a Phys.org report, Mikael Fauvelle of Lund University and his colleagues suggest that Scandinavia’s hunter-gatherers belonging to what is known as the Pitted Ware ...

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA—Live Science reports that prehistoric burials have been discovered in Malaysia’s Nenggiri Valley. Zuliskandar Ramli of the National University of Malaysia said that the ...

When you were a child, you probably had toys such as plastic or porcelain dolls and plush, furry animals that may have included mythical beings such as unicorns. You may have created skits in ...

Pit grave (foreground) in the Philadelphia necropolis Papyrus with Euripides fragments ...

The fortress and military town of Aquincum became the center of the medieval city of Buda, and were built upon many times, wiping out most Roman remains. The civil town, however, lay untouched for ...

READING, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Reading, excavations at the site of a monastery in southeastern England have uncovered another 20 intact Anglo-Saxon burials.

HATALOV, SLOVAKIA—The Slovak Spectator reports that a 5,000-year-old skeleton has been unearthed in eastern Slovakia by researchers from the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of ...

Located in the province of Jujuy in northern Argentina, Pucará de Tilcara is the site of a pre-Inca fortification built around the twelfth century. Situated on a hill outside the small town of ...

WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA—Archaeologists have found possible evidence for the presence of enslaved gardeners at the eighteenth-century home of John Custis IV, a wealthy tobacco plantation owner who ...