Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...

In a new video, two V&A curators unbox a collection of 19th-century objects common in Victorian mourning traditions.

Louvre Director Laurence des Cars called it a “terrible failure,” admitting before the French Senate that the museum’s security systems and staffing had fallen short. Her resignation was refused, but ...

Before Colin Browen takes any of the haunted artifacts out of the box he brought to the Houston Chronicle offices, he offers me a small plastic bottle of water. It's holy water from the Sanctuary ...

A New Orleans couple unearthed a mysterious Roman relic in their backyard this year — and now, officials know why it ended up there. The Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans (PRCNO) shared the ...

There are undoubtedly millions of amazing artifacts from the ancient world that have served to shed light on the lives of our ancestors from many millennia ago. But some stand out for their uniqueness ...

In 1872, construction workers digging a hole for a fence post near the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in New England found a lump of clay with an egg shaped artifact inside it, six feet below the ground ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the ...