Excavations at Gabii, 11 miles east of Rome, are offering archaeologists a chance to understand how Romans built in the 3rd ...

What we know about the Louvre jewel heist, plus a look at thefts from museums in the Philly area over the years.

In one of the most audacious museum robberies in recent history, four masked thieves broke into the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning and made off with eight priceless pieces of ...

According to research published in Nature's npj Heritage Science journal, Professor Sayed Hemeda of Cairo University's Department of Preservation of Architectural Heritage has identified structural ...

Enter Gabii, an ancient Roman city 11 miles east of Rome you’ve probably never heard of unless you’re an expert in the field.

A pair of bones long touted as Japan’s oldest human remains have been reidentified—not as people, but as a prehistoric brown ...

Archaeologists recently discovered the remnants of an ancient bishop’s luxurious perk: a vast bathhouse, unheard of among ...

The mental image of the city of Pompeii, crystallized by the mold of ash and lapilli that preserved its ground level for ...

In Visoko, Bosnia, hills were proclaimed to be the world’s oldest pyramids, older than Egypt’s. But decades of research ...

Located in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Turpan, also known as Turfan, has long been a melting pot where farming, nomadic and oasis cultures converged in the heart of Eurasia.

Centuries-old vulture nests hidden in Spanish cliffs have preserved a stunning archaeological secret. Layers of ancient ...

In the heart of an ancient Christian city, a mosaic's message tells us that people thousands of years ago may have treated ...