A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp ...
The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...
More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily's Valley of the Temples was where the ...
For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world's political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch.
More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily’s Valley of the Temples was where the free citizens of Akragas met to decide their city’s business. Akragas is the ...
The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...
A team from the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has identified the grave of an armed horseman, buried between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, inside ...
The presumed male burial in Pit I in the tholos tomb in the Mycenaean cemetery at Dendra. Some objects can be seen in situ on the skeleton. Credit: Swedish Institute at Athens / Hellenic Ministry of ...
Sent east as a diplomatic gift by Augustus in 20 BC, a Roman slave named Musa became the favourite wife of the Parthian king and, years later, co-ruler alongside her son. Some suggest she went to ...
Some lakes give up shipwrecks, and Arendsee, in northern Germany, has already given up one. What archaeologists brought to light in 2026 is something else: wood carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers ...
Around 1880, men cutting peat at Dejbjerg, in western Jutland (Denmark), began pulling bronze pieces out of the bog that shone as if they were new. Some assumed it was gold. Others had a more ...
Around 5,000 years ago, when writing was in its infancy and Egypt had just been united under a single king, the first ...
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