A major ancient Roman industrial site on the River Wear may be the most important discovery of the last hundred years, ...

Children in Ancient Greece played with figurines that, much like modern Barbies, reflected the society and aspirations of ...

Two of the items were given to the Egyptian embassy in Washington by an unnamed American citizen who felt they should be ...

The long anticipated opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), originally slated for July, is finally going ahead this weekend. The $1 billion, 120-acre complex just outside Cairo promises to take ...

Archaeologists working at Gela in southern Sicily have recovered a remarkably delicate, 5th-century BC bone stylus that blends the everyday with the provocative: a carved head - likely Dionysus - and, ...

When the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum officially reopens on Oct. 13, it will celebrate both 140-plus years of existence and a new chapter in its life as a teaching collection for the ...

Deep inside a remote Mexican cave, a pair of explorers thought they had stumbled on modern litter, the kind of plastic and debris that too often mars even the most isolated landscapes. Instead, they ...

Archaeology influencer Señor Blue found a tomb with ancient Mixtec artifacts in Oaxaca, drawing criticism both of his actions ...

This discovery sheds new light on understanding the lives and hunting practices of ancient people who lived along the coasts ...

In the Princeton University Art Museum’s Ancient Mediterranean pavilion, each step carries you across centuries and civilizations. Entering the pavilion, you tread upon a glass floor, beneath which ...

Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have revealed a trove of coins, gold jewelry and other artifacts that date to about 2,500 years ago, during the region's Celtic period. According to a translated ...