According to a report in The Guardian, the well-preserved timbers of an Egyptian pleasure vessel have been discovered off the coast of Alexandria, near the underwater site of the temple of Isis that ...

Live Science reports that artifacts unearthed in the Fones Cliffs area of Virginia’s Rappahannock River may provide evidence ...

Türkiye Today reports that a terracotta incense burner adorned with a relief of the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis has been uncovered in the ancient city of Ephesus on Turkey’s western coast. Egyptian ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

La Brújula Verde reports that an extensive genetic study of human remains found at the site of Shimao in Shaanxi Province is ...

In 2020, a farmer in England's Rutland county notified authorities about the possibility that there was a Roman villa located ...

Many masterpieces of classical Greek sculpture were created using the lost-wax technique, a process that involves making a detailed wax model figure and covering it with clay. That wax-clay object is ...

Tour operators can help you rent a kayak or hire a motorboat from the Albanian town of Pustec to get to Maligrad and several shoreside cave-hewn churches where Christian hermits once dwelled. For more ...

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

The Greek city of Rhodes emerged victorious from a yearlong siege by the Macedonian noble Demetrius Poliorcetes in 304 b.c. To commemorate their city’s resilience, the Rhodians built a towering bronze ...

Mesopotamia, eighth century b.c. Streams and irrigation canals shown on both reliefs are also mentioned in a text commissioned by Sennacherib that records his grand efforts to transform Nineveh. This ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...