In October 1938, Italian archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri made a remarkable discovery during excavations at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii — a small, intricately carved ivory statuette of a female ...

Tartessos was a land of myths and riches. The advanced culture of the people thrived on the southern Iberian Peninsula near the Guadalquivir River, an area now known as Andalusia, Spain. The story of ...

The most striking find is a heavily damaged wooden hull located inside the harbor, pinned down by a pile of ballast stones. The ship's planks were connected by wooden treenails, a typical 18th-century ...

Paris has long been a city built on its own past, but rarely has that truth been made quite so literal as it is today beneath ...

An amateur metal detectorist scanning a quiet field in South Somerset has made a spectacular discovery that is rewriting our understanding of late third-century Roman Britain. Kev ...

How was iron produced 2,000 years ago in Senegal? A recent study at the Didé West 1 archaeological site, in the Falémé Valley ...

The military prestige of Alexander’s successors, otherwise known as Diadochi, has now reached its zenith in the person of King Pyrrhus of Epirus. But the fledgling state of Rome is still trying to ...

Yet, as modern marine geologists and archaeologists continue to map the depths of the Baltic basin, a far more complex and grounded truth is beginning to surface. The reality of what lies beneath the ...

Through carbon dating research, an incredible find has been uncovered in Transylvania, Romania. Nothing less than a medieval fortress has conclusively been proven to be built by the Knightly Order of ...

History does not only survive in temples, treasures, and royal tombs. Sometimes it waits in severed hands, headless skeletons, plague graves, sacrificial children, and bodies preserved so perfectly ...

A comprehensive study of Mycenaean gold working opens the doors to the goldsmith’s workshop of 3500 years ago. Researchers analyzed 165 gold objects from tholos (beehive) tombs near the Bay of Volos ...

First discovered in 1912 by the prominent British geologist William Sollas and the French archaeologist Abbé Henri Breuil, the markings were initially celebrated as the first specimen of prehistoric ...