Construction crews in Vienna last year made an unprecedented discovery. They found intertwined skeletal remains in a mass ...

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

At a site not far from an ancient forum and amphitheater once used to host Roman gladiators, archaeologists discovered an ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's ...

Scientists have revived 7,000-year-old algae from Baltic Sea sediments, pushing the limits of resurrection ecology.

In some South African cultures, when burying a twin, his sibling is supposed to enter the grave to allegedly help prepare ...

The partial solar eclipse of March 2025 did not disappoint as observers turned their eyes and cameras to the sky.

Archaeologists deconstructed these monumental ancient graves scattered across the desert of eastern Africa and found several ...

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has ...

Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third ...

One artifact was popular among Greek aristocrats, suggesting the burial site belonged to someone with high social status, ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Gregory Maguire plans one of his few “Elphie: A Wicked ...