Between 1991 and 1995, archaeologists with the Austrian Archaeological Institute working under its then-director Dieter Knibbe excavated along the sacred processional way to the Temple of Artemis ...

Scientists from the Getty Conservation Institute detected this same red lead pigment on seven other mummy shrouds in museums affiliated with the project, including that of a woman named Isidora.

Clockwise from top left: Roman mosaic of a retiarius versus a secutor; Roman bronze gladiator helmet, Italy; Roman gladiator fresco, Pompeii, Italy While some ancient written sources describe ...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND—Glasgow Times reports that volunteers from Clutha Archaeology Group, in collaboration with Archaeology Scotland and Countryside Ranger Service, have unearthed artifacts that ...

LUXOR, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a tomb dated to the Middle Kingdom period has been discovered in the Asasif necropolis at Thebes, which is located on the western bank of the Nile River in ...

SEVILLE, SPAIN—According to an El País report, a team of researchers led by Carlos Odriozola of the University of Seville has studied replica amber beads produced by people living on the ...

MÜNSTER, GERMANY—CBS News reports that traces of an early Christian church have been uncovered in Armenia, at the site of the ancient city of Artaxata, by a team of German and Armenian researchers.

Valdéz, now at the Research Institute for Development in Paris, believes the site was a civic or ceremonial center where people from surrounding valleys gathered for rituals led by a charismatic ...

Researchers has uncovered never before seen details in a set of prehistoric stone objects that feature a variety of artworks.

WIRED spoke with the researchers responsible for the discovery of Valeriana, a lost Maya city in the middle of the jungle of ...

On the Silk Road, these lost twin cities may have sustained themselves in a foreboding landscape with metallurgy and commerce ...

An ancient temple made by Arabian immigrants from the Nabataean culture has finally been found off the Italian coast near ...