A contractor for the Department of Homeland Security destroyed a 1,000-year-old etching in the sand of the Sonoran Desert

The Caral civilisation used the structure thousands of years ago to track the sun, moon and stars to determine conditions for fishing and gathering shellfish

New technologies used in archaeological research provide insights into how climate change has long-changed empires and societies

What is believed to be a council house built more than 1,000 years ago sheds light on how Maya systems of governance shifted

The works, which span prehistory to the time of contact with Spanish colonisers, were identified in Hidalgo state during construction of a passenger train line

Built during the 2nd century, the circular building found in northern Sinai may have been dedicated to the god Pelusius

Archaeologists discovered the site during salvage operations for the new Mexico City-Querétaro passenger rail line

The new research suggests use of dice in games of chance more than 6,000 years before such practices appeared in Europe

Archaeologists and landowners claim the proposed extension of the Mexico-US border wall in Val Verde County could damage thousands of millennia-old cave paintings located within a designated national historic landmark

New research has confirmed the site of the giant ancient metropolis, but further archaeological work has been delayed due to issues such as travel restrictions

As increasingly extreme weather threatens cultural sites, archaeologists are turning to technology to try and record them before they are lost forever

Six volcanic-stone boxes found at Templo Mayor reveal a ceremony linked to Moctezuma I’s imperial expansion

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD

While local officials hailed the petroglyph as the potential linchpin of a heritage tourism to the region, archaeologists point to a lack of thorough analysis

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has called it ”the most important archaeological finding of the last decade”

Recent discoveries have renewed archaeologists’ concerns that a shipwreck-salvage company has exclusive rights to artefacts aboard a sunken 1715 fleet

A hand stencil found in a cave in Sulawesi has been assessed as being at least 67,800 years old

Discoveries by metal detectorists account for 94% of recorded finds in 2024

Found beneath the town of Port Talbot, the structure is the largest Roman villa ever found in Wales

The hoard, uncovered by archaeologists in Norfolk, includes rare animal-headed battle trumpet

Authorities plan to extend the $28bn rail project and relocate Maya structures

Archaeologists discovered Palaeolithic fire-making tools in a field in the east of England

“Elemental Life” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia shows the artist's unique use of sculpture and glazes to explore history, ecology and geology

Pit diggers may have been trying to connect with the underworld, archaeologist Vincent Gaffney says

The newly opened museum currently allocates a percentage of its daily ticket limit to both Egyptians and foreigners

The 3,000-year-old ceremonial complex of Aguada Fénix in Tabasco was designed as a monumental “cosmogram”, according to new research

This summer a team of archaeologists resumed their work on a site dating back to around 600BC, known for its three well-preserved Doric temples

New analysis of the 1.5km-long site consisting of thousands of holes suggests they may have been used to measure and trade commodities

New research comparing stone tools found at sites across the US and on Japan’s northernmost island suggests a different timeline and mode of travel for the first humans to arrive in North America

Fragile limestone carvings from the Diquís culture undergo conservation at the Finca 6 Museum Site in southern Costa Rica