A team of French archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric site in the commune of Marliens, just 12 miles southeast of Dijon—the first of its kind to be found in France. Researchers from the ...
Archaeologists uncovered ancient skeletons buried in a rare "seated" position beneath a French school site, with graves ...
Children at a primary school in eastern France found a strange new attraction next to their playground this week: a skeleton sitting upright, peeking out the top of a circular pit. It is just the ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have uncovered a mysterious prehistoric monument in what has been described as an "unprecedented" ...
Researchers in a French port city found the remains of an ancient warehouse district used to house goods from the expanding Roman Empire. Flore Giraud INRAP Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, a French ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient stone sarcophagus has been uncovered in northeastern France, dating back thousands of years to the Roman Era, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cross-section view of a coin deposit in its pit. Archeologists recently discovered over 40,000 Roman-era coins during a dig in a ...
A newly discovered structure in France could be thousands of years old—and its odd shape is one of a kind, archaeologists say. Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive ...
Little is known about the Parisii, the ancient Gallic tribe that dwelled on the banks of the Seine some 2,000 years ago. At the time, the French capital that now bears the Parisii’s name was called ...
As INRAP teams opened trenches in Marseille’s northern districts, the work initially looked like another routine intervention beneath busy streets. Layers of asphalt and industrial debris came away as ...
It was no secret that Hôtel Lagorce in Vannes, a historic town in northwestern France, was built on top of a medieval castle. What archaeologists didn’t realize was the remarkably good condition that ...