A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

Unearthed off the coast of Alexandria, the vessel may have once measured 115 feet long. Experts think it would have held a ...

Deep in the woods of Georgia, we discovered an abandoned home frozen in time. Strange noises, collapsing chimneys, and old ...

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

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the ...

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas. The ...

From precision stonework to unexplained artifacts, the search for ancient high technology continues to reshape our understanding of early human achievements. Lawmakers react to US seizure of ...

History doesn’t always reveal its secrets willingly. While most archaeological finds eventually yield their stories through carbon dating and careful analysis, some discoveries resist every attempt at ...

Egypt recovered 36 ancient artifacts from the United States, authorities announced on Thursday, in the latest effort to reclaim its ancient heritage as tens of thousands of antiquities are believed to ...

The remnants of Typhoon Halong scattered artifacts from an archaeological site along the shore of the Bering Sea. Jimmy Jones with a Yup’ik mask he found on a beach on Alaska’s west coast last month ...