For now the ossuary stays in storage rather than on public display, a limestone box at the centre of a question archaeology ...

Now those corroded coins have achieved something no medieval manuscript could: they have proved that a busy English ...

An entire Roman town—not merely a fort—has emerged from beneath fields at Stein in Lower Austria. The University of Innsbruck ...

On the second night, the seer Ezra dreams of an eagle rising from the sea. It has twelve feathered wings and three heads. It ...

A coded letter sent on Napoleon Bonaparte's orders in March 1809 has finally been read, 217 years after it was written. The ...

After three weeks in the mountains, the Secrets of the Ice team has announced that 48 prehistoric arrows like the beauty ...

A Babylonian pupil could learn the names of hundreds of gods without ever attending a religion class. In a new study published in Iraq, Shana Zaia shows how divine names, sacred places and proper ...

Paracas weapons tell a story that ought to have an arrow in it—but does not. A new study of 200 obsidian projectile points ...

The finding helps explain how a fascinating artifact was used and indicates how a lost technology that was used in prehistory ...

Archaeologists suspect people may have opened the skull to eat the brain, but the newly recovered animal's age and the ...

The imposing figure set on the huge rock is not a new find. Previous studies have suggested that the petroglyph dates back to Kerma or wider Kushite period. The recent research study was still unable ...

On Ukraine’s Arabat Spit, a Sarmatian warrior burial lay near the top of a mound built for people who had died long before ...