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

Genetic testing of a single, 90,000-year-old sliver of bone from an approximately 13-year-old girl has confirmed something researchers had long suspected: It has provided clear evidence of ...

CBS News reports that traces of an early Christian church have been uncovered in Armenia, at the site of the ancient city of ...

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 ...

The woeful state of Viking bathrooms could be a factor behind smokers’ coughs in Scandinavia. Sometimes in human evolution, populations adapt in ways that aren’t always beneficial in the long run.

BLIND RIVER, ONTARIO—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 ...

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 ...

In the early days of archaeology, excavators used objects such as shoeboxes, beer crates, and even matchboxes to store artifacts. In some cases, museum workers have assembled collections of these ...

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 ...

In his On the Embassy to Gaius, the first-century a.d. historian Philo of Alexandria recounts a diplomatic mission he led from Egypt to Rome seeking intervention on behalf of Alexandria’s Jews.

Archaeologists have learned that a collection of 42 stone circles recently discovered at a site in southern Norway’s Østfold County marks an unusually large concentration of children’s burials.

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.