Two of the items were given to the Egyptian embassy in Washington by an unnamed American citizen who felt they should be ...

Norway's melting glaciers are revealing objects from the Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the medieval era. Some ancient artifacts are mysteries, but they still indicate trade routes through the mountains ...

Children in Ancient Greece played with figurines that, much like modern Barbies, reflected the society and aspirations of ...

A stunning hoard of destroyed – yet still insightful – two-millennia-old artifacts were recently brought to light by archaeologists in the United Kingdom. The discovery was announced by Durham ...

Archaeologists working at Gela in southern Sicily have recovered a remarkably delicate, 5th-century BC bone stylus that blends the everyday with the provocative: a carved head - likely Dionysus - and, ...

An unassuming grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far earlier chapter than ...

In a cave that hardly a soul had entered in 500 years, two cave dwellers discovered 14 exquisite artifacts from an ancient but under-recorded Mexican culture. After two cave explorers tipped off ...

When the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum officially reopens on Oct. 13, it will celebrate both 140-plus years of existence and a new chapter in its life as a teaching collection for the ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren’t formed by collapsing stars. Instead, they emerged when extremely dense ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A recent investigation of a 20th century museum collection found Epstein-Barr virus genetic material in penis ...