Researchers have found strong evidence that ancient storage jars known as Etruscan amphorae, discovered at the Italian city of Vulci, were crafted close to home rather than shipped in from distant lands, even though the settlement thrived on Greek...
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Huacas de Moche in northern Peru have uncovered the 1,500-year-old burial of a young child, offering a rare look at Moche burial practices involving very young children.
Researchers estimate the child was between 1...
Newly analyzed fragments of a 1,500-year-old Greek inscription found in modern-day Turkey are filling gaps in the record of a long-running ancient Roman tax scandal that prompted an unusually severe response: a threat of death for the officials involved.
Archaeologists...
Archaeologists in Czech Republic are uncovering new evidence that a 6,500-year-old prehistoric sanctuary may have been designed around the movements of the Sun and Moon, more than 1,000 years before the earliest earthworks at Stonehenge.
The nearly circular enclosure lies...
The Parthenon frieze may have been designed to reveal its story as ancient viewers walked alongside it, creating an experience closer to a cinematic sequence than a static work of art, according to research led by Ellie Mackin Roberts....
The Bronze Age Collapse is shrouded in mystery. Scholars continue to debate what exactly caused this major event in history. However, modern scientific research has revealed evidence for a so-called earthquake storm that may have contributed to the end...
Archaeologists in eastern Spain have uncovered new evidence that women played a central and active role in the worship of a goddess at an underground sanctuary, according to results from the latest dig season at Cova Dones cave in...
Conservation specialists at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, Cairo, have completed restoration work on a black basalt stele of King Ramses II from the New Kingdom era. The piece has been on display in the museum for more than...
Archaeologists digging beneath a Jerusalem courtyard have uncovered a set of tiny Hellenistic gold rings that date back more than 2,000 years. Researchers believe the rings were deliberately buried beneath the floors of an ancient building as part of...
Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Perperikon in southern Bulgaria have discovered a rare 13th-century seal identified by the excavation team as belonging to Byzantine Empress Irene Komnene. The find may offer new evidence of diplomatic contacts between medieval...
Archaeologists in Russia have uncovered weapons, jewelry and other artifacts at the ancient Kipchakovo settlement in Tatarstan, one of the largest known fortified sites associated with the Iron Age Pyanobor culture.
The finds include iron and bronze arrowheads, a spearhead,...
Archaeologists have found evidence that brands in Bronze Age oases may have existed thousands of years before modern advertising and capitalism. A new study shows that artisans in northwestern Arabia created a distinctive style of painted pottery that carried...
A Greek woman named Phryne became an iconic figure in ancient Athens, remembered for the extraordinary moment when her beauty purportedly saved her life. Not many people in history can claim that they were so close to being imprisoned,...
Archaeologists excavating Gedikkaya Cave in today's northwestern Turkey have uncovered about 25 stone figurines shaped like turtles, adding new evidence that hunter-gatherers used parts of the cave for activities beyond everyday survival. The objects come from Epipaleolithic layers dating...
Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the skeletal remains of an adult believed to have been buried as a ritual offering of human sacrifice beneath Huaca Pucllana, an ancient adobe pyramid in Lima.
Researchers unveiled the remains Tuesday at the archaeological...
