Archaeology

Greece had two golden ages. The legacies of Greek golden ages, especially in science, made Western civilization what we know today.

An unknown Indo-European language found on a clay tablet inside a Hittite ritual text has been discovered during an excavation in Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire. The Hittite Empire was one of the great powers of Western...

Linear A, a writing system that was used by the ancient Minoans from 1800 to 1450 BC, has intrigued and frustrated experts for centuries. Despite the fact that it has never been fully decrypted, scientists and archaeologists believe they...

The head of a statue determined by archaeologists to belong to Alexander the Great, was unearthed during excavations in north-western Turkey. The marble head, dated to the 2nd century AD, was found at the top of a theater in the...

John Wesley Gilbert, the son of slaves, became a renowned archaeologist and the first Black man to receive an advanced degree from Brown University.

Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery of the oldest wooden structure that sheds new light on our history. They've found evidence that humans were using wood to build things much earlier than we originally believed and as early as...

Alexander the Great , who lived from July 356 BC to 10/11 June, 323 BC, was an intrepid conqueror and a brilliant military general.

An impressive statue depicting Hercules from the Roman times was recently discovered at the ancient site of Philippi in northern Greece. Alongside the statue, a richly decorated structure, potentially a fountain, was also found. According to a recent announcement by the...

A remarkable find in Austria has revealed an ancient child's shoe that is more than two thousand years old and still has its laces! Experts at the German Mining Museum Bochum-Leibniz Research Museum for Geo-resources have concluded that this...

In a recent development in Vingrom, located to the south of Lillehammer by Lake Mjøsa in Norway, archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable collection of tiny gold objects. These gold pieces no bigger than a fingernail and as thin as...

The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, "ginesthoi" (Greek: γίνεσθοι), meaning "make it happen" or " so be it". This remarkable document is a royal decree dated back to...

A temple of the Greek goddess Aphrodite and another for the Egyptian god Amun was found off Heracleion on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast by a team of archaeologists. The team of researchers explored the ancient port city of Thonis-Heracleion in the...

Many important ancient temples are located in Greece and other countries, such as Italy, which were then part of the ancient Greek empire.

A recent study reveals that even though a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period, it didn't harm the flowers much. In fact, after the asteroid hit, the flowers bloomed. About sixty-six million years...

Archaeologists are scared to open the 2,200-year-old burial place of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. They worry that it might contain dangerous booby traps. The tomb of this ancient emperor, who reigned from 221 to 210 BC, lies in...