National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts tells how diving to surface the stories of sunken slave shipwrecks has changed her life.

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today. The ruins of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists uncovered a sunken landscape, including these tall structures, in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. - ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages. Ruins like these at Igaliku, once the religious heart of the ...

A new study of ancient pottery adds to evidence that hunter-gatherers in Europe ate more than meat and developed early elements of cuisine.

For centuries, people have tried in vain to locate and recover the Bible's most sacred objects. Among the most sought-after of these religious antiquities is the famed Ark of the Covenant. This ...

The oldest human remains ever found in North America have been dug up in Alaska. The 11,500-year-old remains of a three-year-old boy were discovered in a firepit near the Tanana River, according to ...

For decades, archaeologists have been perplexed by thousands of mysterious dimples dotting the landscape in southern Peru. Known as the “Band of Holes,” the depressions are arranged in a long, slender ...

The discovery of a sunken port off the coast of Egypt may offer a puzzle piece in the longstanding search for Cleopatra’s lost tomb and glimpses into the country’s ancient maritime activity, according ...