A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

An investigation into the evidence for ancient high technology found across the world. We look into the evidence for ...

The centerpiece of the exhibition “A Journey to Ancient Greece” at China’s Sanxingdui Museum is a life-size replica of the ...

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

A Great Wall excavation in China uncovers the largest known cannon in the Jiankou section and evidence of early cultural ...

The area around Boeslunde had already yielded 10 gold oath rings and approximately 2,200 gold spirals in previous excavations. Museum director and archaeologist Lone Claudi-Hansen explained their ...

Astonishing evidence for an ancient form of sophisticated machining into very hard stone can be seen on one of the artifacts ...

The statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been ...

Archaeologists excavating at Canhasan in central Turkey have unearthed an extraordinarily rare 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror. The discovery represents one of only 56 such mirrors ever found across ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster v ...

Oddly shaped conch shells found at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back 6,000 years could have served as technology for ...