A sticky residue discovered inside bronze jars at an ancient Greek shrine in southern Italy has been conclusively identified, ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Sahura sits amongst the Abusir complex, a popular burial site near the Nile River for pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of ...

Stories of ancient giants appear repeatedly in Native oral traditions, early explorer accounts, and 19th-century newspapers.

Where these sea raiders might have come from, and why they attacked the island of Als has long been a mystery.” ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

“It should be emphasized that it was on Ostrów Lednicki that the oldest Christian liturgical objects ever found in Poland ...

These Anglo-Saxon accessories were recovered from the side of a hill in England and may be from a hoard, a ritual deposit or ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

In the fourth century BCE, mysterious raiders attacked a Danish island. Now we might finally know where they came from.

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

An archaeological team has uncovered for the first time more than half of the temple, long buried under River Nile sediment.