Did a bankrupt Egypt attempt to hitch an anonymous ride for an unpopular pharaoh into immortality? His 225 personal retainers ...

In the early 1980s, Nelly Baude Gerouard arrived on the Costa Blanca with her husband, literature scholar Jean-Marc Baude, ...

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.

Roman soldiers decapitated an enemy and placed his skull on the wall of their fort, to be found 2,000 years later by ...

Each cell in a plant, animal, or person contains millions, or even billions, of DNA base pairs—molecules connected by hydrogen bonds that are the building blocks of DNA. These base pairs collectively ...

What did the voices of Britain sound like during and after the Roman period? How did early British communities construct and ...

Archaeological excavations at the heart of London's political power have revealed remarkable prehistoric tools, medieval treasures, and architectural remains spanning six millennia beneath the Palace ...

The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...

What began as a standard construction survey turned into a historical revelation, as builders stumbled upon a hidden Celtic ...

In a surprising turn of events during routine surveys for a new motorway, archaeologists have uncovered a vast Celtic ...

Pieces once traded during the Greek and Roman eras or salvaged from Spanish shipwrecks continue to be popular with artisans ...

“The preservation, the jewellery, the symbolism, it’s extraordinary on multiple levels,” Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) archaeologist Raymond Sauvage says of the discovery of a ...