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 ...

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 ...

A tree stump from an ancient submerged forest that is at least 6,000 years old protrudes from a beach at low tide at Pett Level in Sussex, England. (M.J. Thomas) (Ken Feisel) Experts from the British ...

Ideal conditions within an ancient cave system are revealing a rich history that reaches back to a time before humans settled the island and extends to the present day Some six million years ago, in ...

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 ...

Human eyes are as individual as fingerprints. Like those of a living person, the eyes of this ceramic figurine discovered recently at the site of Xanab Chak in the Puuc region of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

Mid-1st century B.C. Several hundred ancient Roman sundials have been found, but very few are in such good condition—and even fewer are inscribed—making the example from Interamna Lirenas a rare find.

Thebes, Egypt ...

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.