Archaeology

Vultures are found everywhere in the world today, except Australia and Antarctica. But that hasn't always been the case.

Construction of a multi-billion-dollar estate in South Australia is also the site of one of state's most significant Indigenous burial grounds.

Tens of thousands of ancient coins recovered from the seabed off Sardinia were only found when a diver saw something metallic out of the corner of their eye.

Thermal baths, working class neighbourhoods and a headless statue are some gems archaeologists have uncovered in Rabat as excavation work continues.

Some of the submerged land in the Tiwi Islands may contain burial grounds from tens of thousands of years ago. 

Record low water levels along a section of the Amazon River uncover human faces sculptured into stone up to 2,000 years ago.

The latest find follows the recovery of 14 ancient Ukrainian weaponry, allegedly stolen by a Russian man stopped at a US airport.

Researchers from the WA Museum Boola Bardip are hoping to recover between four and five skeletons of the Diprotodon from a remote mine site in the Pilbara.

The dry expanses of south-eastern Türkiye, home to some of humanity's most ancient sites, have yielded fresh discoveries in the form of a stone phallus and a coloured boar.

A species of prehistoric crocodile that once roamed the now arid landscape of central Australia has been named.

Researchers say a newly named species of prehistoric crocodile that once roamed central Australia "would've eaten whatever it wanted".

Associate Professor Mike Morley is a geoarchaeologist and talks about why this early stone age wooden artefact is a significant discovery and what it reveals about early civilisations.

Archaeologists say they have unearthed the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, near Zambia's Kalambo Falls.

Several ancient artefacts, including a 2,500-year-old vase, housed in the Australian National University's Classics Museum are found to have been stolen from Italy and will be repatriated.

Elliott Doughty unearthed the 30-centimetre long mortar shell while working on a home renovation project.

Scientists say teeth from the species have been found at a 25-million-year-old fossil bed south of Alice Springs. It is the first-ever record of koalas living in the Northern Territory.

A discovery of fossil teeth has led researchers to conclude that an ancient relative of the Koala existed in the Northern Territory millions of years ago.

Detailed 3D maps of the bottom of the Swan River lead maritime archaeologists to a sunken barge in the heart of Perth that has lain unexplored for many years.

Maritime archaeologists find unrecorded shipwreck in Perth's Swan River

The tomb, which would have been buried around 1200 BC, was found with several artefacts which indicate it was for a priest.

Italian authorities celebrate the return of 266 antiquities worth tens of millions of dollars, including Etruscan vases and ancient Roman coins and mosaics, that were looted and sold to US museums and private collectors. 

Meet the people who hunt, explore and photograph the derelict buildings that represent Australia's lost and abandoned history.  

Almost 30 years after a chicken farmer found an almost perfectly preserved fossil in a slab of sandstone, scientists have identified the skeleton as a prehistoric amphibian.

A four-metre wide sinkhole in Mount Gambier has led to the discovery of a hidden cave. Cave Geologist Ian Lewis says the cave could be half a million years old.

Previously only referred to in ancient Roman texts, the long-lost theatre of emperor Nero is found under a garden in Rome.