The emerging importance of the find underscores a key truth about archaeology: artifacts often hold secrets that only later ...
The surprising artifact could be evidence of fertility rituals—or just one of history’s strangest good luck charms.
Back when she was an intrepid graduate student, renowned University of California, Santa Cruz Egyptologist Elaine Sullivan ...
Israeli archaeologists uncovered a Byzantine-era monastery with a colorful mosaic floor and an unusually sophisticated ...
The demand for Iranian Iron Age weapons began after a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western ...
On a rocky island off the coast of Norway, metal detectorists stumbled on some ancient jewelry and led archaeologists to a ...
"Pompeii" at the National Museum of Australia brings together 90 artifacts and a recreation of Vesuvius's eruption.
An ancient Greek shipwreck off the coast of Sicily has yielded ingots of orichalcum, the mythical "Atlantis metal," offering ...
A fifth-century Greek shipwreck that contains orichalcum is to be recovered from the seabed off Sicily, Italian authorities announced.
The Ancient Pazyryk culture's frozen tombs, preserved mummies, tattoos, and artifacts reshape views on nomadic life.
EGYPT -- Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, the country’s interior ministry said in a Monday statement.