Archaeologists in Spain found a single elephant bone among Carthaginian weapons, offering rare physical evidence linked to ...

Nearly two thousand years after it was carved, a Roman-era stele came to light not through a formal excavation but during ...

Each mummy was scanned in its sarcophagus, which weighs about 200 pounds. Then 3D models of the two Egyptian priests were ...

New discoveries from Denisova Cave include ancient DNA extracted from sediments and sophisticated jewelry dated to around 45,000 years ago. The finds show that Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern ...

Featuring ancient ruins spanning from the Paleolithic Age to the Tang Dynasty (618-907), six sites were revealed by the ...

Delicate paper flowers, cut, painted, and layered like small rosettes, survived for roughly a millennium after being sealed inside a cave on China’s Silk Road. The discovery is a reminder that ...

Bulgarian construction workers unearthed the world's oldest gold treasure in 1972, dating back to 4600 BC. The Varna Necropolis revealed over 13 pounds of meticulously crafted gold artifacts, ...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek building and courtyard on Failaka Island, Kuwait, offering insights into ...

Physicians of the Roman empire had a knack for making remedies from an assortment of components from various animals, ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

An archaeological discovery of two artifacts in southern Greece are the oldest known handheld wooden tools fashioned by early human ancestors.

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages.