French glass and African pottery suggest individuals buried are of high status

Regio IX area, one of nine neighbourhoods, was made publicly accessible this week

The findings, by a team from Poland working inside Mesa Verde National Park, add to our understanding of the 13th-century Pueblan communities

The cavern’s entrance had been concealed by a boulder that appears to have pinned an unfortunate person to the spot when it was installed

The rail network connecting archaeological sites and tourist destinations on the Yucatán peninsula is one of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s legacy projects

Preserved for centuries in pristine condition, submerged archaeological sites are now being destroyed by quagga mussels

First-of-its-kind operation has seen experts continue the grim search at a forensic level

New research has revealed the clean-water secret of Classic Maya reservoirs

Many organisations, including Unesco, fear the project will negatively affect the region’s cultural heritage, natural environment and residents when it opens in December

Researchers are hopeful the state-of-the-art Turkish Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Institute will enhance international collaboration in the field

The carvings, which resemble expressive human faces, may be up to 2,000 years old

New findings about a set of footprints at White Sands National Park are prompting archaeologists to revise the timeline of human history on the continent

EU project aims to find ways to arrest damage at numerous archaeological sites, from a 12th-century BC city in Greece eroded by rising sea levels to submerged prehistoric villages in a Swiss lake at risk from falling water levels

A new report reveals that humans were building with wood 476,000 years ago, upending previous beliefs about our ancestors

The ancient site of Tell es-Sultan in Jericho is one of many archaeological sites in the region whose status has been mired in political and territorial disputes

Archaeologists at the pre-Hispanic site of Palenque discovered the finely carved artefact, believed to be at least 1,100 years old

A village in Brazil that was in use for around 500 years, until the 10th century, may have been laid out on a celestial schematic

The haul has now been officially classed as treasure and may be acquired by an Anglesey museum

A dig on Vancouver Island has revealed archaeological remnants of a 250-person fishing community

Objects ranging from the Roman to medieval period were found at the archaeological site, which will now be turned into a Four Seasons hotel

A new scientific method has been used by archaeologists to determine the sex of the skeletal remains found on the Isles of Scilly

The find unearthed by Palestinian archaeology students includes sarcophagi decorated with dolphins and vineyards

Silence of pre-Hispanic past broken with discovery of dance platform that could imitate the rumbling of thunder

The show tracks the influence of ancient Egypt on musicians such as Beyoncé, Miles Davis and Fela Kuti, however, the country's tourism and antiquities ministry has accused the curators of "Afrocentrism"

The large piece of oak is around 6,000 years old–2,000 years older than Stonehenge

The lands withdrawn from future oil, gas and mining claims around Chaco Culture National Historical Park include more than 4,700 known archaeological sites

The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise money for the Soviet government

Research could lead to restitutions if artefact were found to have been excavated or exported illegally

Animals still barred from the most popular attractions such as the Acropolis and Ancient Olympia

Conservation works on an ancient burial site at Shewaki near Kabul had to be halted due to lack of funding and resources