A Roman man lost a gold ring. Another man wore a ring bearing the name of the suspected thief. And then a curse asked a god ...

Drilling is capable of reaching depths of hundreds of meters without digging a new access tunnel, so researchers could ...

A marble inscription discovered at Hadrian’s Villa has preserved the rare physical reminders of the Roman rite of lightning ...

The same formation also contains Titanosaur bones and teeth as well as fossils believed to belong to the giant Nullotitan ...

The Oguz Kurgan, located close to Nyzhni Sirohozy, in the Kherson region was one of the monuments built for the Scythian elite in the 4th century BC. The North Tomb of this kurgan has a burial of a ...

A placename from a charter from the 10th century and the description of an ancient transaction offer clues related to the ...

This relatively recent finding extends the timeline of the use of betel nuts thousands of years into the past, far into the ...

Four fish spines excavated from graves near the Usumacinta River in Mexico might be rare physical evidence of Maya ...

The remains of 38 prominent individuals have been discovered thanks to a perfectly preserved grave site at Chan Chan in northern Peru. Many antiquities that were used in rituals have also been ...

A collaborative mission of Egypt and Spain has discovered a tomb from the Fifth Dynasty, whose painted reliefs retain most of ...

Seven Denisovan fossils from Bianfu Cave in southwest China have opened an unusually detailed window onto a vanished archaic human population. Dating from about 167,000 to 134,000 years ago, the finds ...

Archaeologists have discovered a vividly colored Roman pet mosaic in Adramytteion, Turkey that contains the names of two ...