Until just recently, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greco-Roman galleries were greeted by an enormous funerary vase, a creation of the ninth-century B.C., depicting in somber ocher ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

Civilizations from Stone Age Scotland to the eighth-century Maya to 13th-century African empires have used dry stone walling ...

Experts at the Museum of London Archaeology announced a thrilling new discovery after piecing together an ancient Roman ...

A mysterious tusked animal depicted in South African rock art might portray an ancient species preserved as fossils in the same region, according to a new study.

Archeologists say a fresco discovered in the ancient ruins of Pompeii is not, as was previously believed, a pizza as the key ingredients did not arrive in Italy until centuries later.

Researchers have uncovered a 130,000-year-old sand sculpture of a stingray near Still Bay, South Africa, challenging previous timelines of human artistic expression.