How archaeologists trying to locate the final resting place of Suleiman the Magnificent uncovered the remains of a crucial outpost of the Ottoman Empire A red sandstone block props open the door ...

Rüdiger Teegen of Ludwig-Maximilians University examined the cremated remains of more […] ...

Top: Greek temple remains, Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt. Clockwise from left (above): Byzantine jewelry, Canopus, Egypt, Byzantine gold coin, Canopus, 4th-century B.C ...

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CHIFENG CITY, CHINA—ARTnews reports that more than 100 jade dragon figurines have been recovered from a burial mound in Mongolia’s Yuanbaoshan archaeological site. The figurines have been ...

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—Cosmos Magazine reports that researchers led by Vito Hernandez of Flinders University are reconstructing the environment of Tam Pà Ling cave in northeastern Laos between ...

CBC News reports that the Canadian Museum of History has repatriated the skull of a child, the skull of an older adult, and a collection of artifacts to the Mississauga First Nation. “It’s been a long ...

Excavations at the Israeli site of Tell es-Safi have revealed the ruins of the city of Gath, which was occupied by the Philistines during most of the Iron Age (ca. 1200–539 B.C.)(Courtesy Aren ...

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

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.