Researchers have identified fragments of a Roman helmet dated to the fourth century A.D. among more than 100 weapons that ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which ...

New analysis of human remains found at the site of Charterhouse Warren in southwest England has revealed shocking evidence of a macabre event that occurred in the Bronze Age (ca. 2500–700 b.c ...

The waters of the Bay of Naples may seem a far cry from the deserts of modern Jordan and Saudi Arabia, home of the ancient Nabataeans, a Semitic-speaking people who established a powerful kingdom ...

While reexcavating a Viking burial mound in southwestern Norway, archaeologists from the University of Bergen came across a surprise: a message left more than a century ago by Anders Lorange, one ...

When the a.d. 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius blanketed the southern Italian city of Pompeii in layers of volcanic debris, it preserved the bodies of many individuals who had perished. Since ...

What kind of clothing helped hunter-gatherers in North America stay warm during the Ice Age? New research at the La Prele mammoth kill site in eastern Wyoming is offering clues about the furry ...

Some 50 miles northwest of Baghdad, archaeologists and a large team of local workers have revealed the standing remains of a neglected Sasanian-era (a.d. 224–651) site known as the Zindan, a ...

Southern Iberia is home to some of the highest concentrations of megalithic tombs anywhere in Europe. A recent multidisciplinary study has demonstrated that the necropolis of Panoría, near ...