Analysis of fatty residues in pottery recovered from a burial in Surkotada, a Harappan site in northwestern India, indicates ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

While excavating a palace at the site of Megiddo in northern Israel in the 1930s, a team of University of Chicago archaeologists uncovered a small ceramic jug containing 44 silver objects.

According to a twelfth-century legend, the island of Selja is the birthplace of Norwegian Christianity and the location where the country’s only female martyr, a tenth-century a.d. Irish ...

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses ...

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 ...

We gather much of what we know about Maya astronomical knowledge from detailed records they themselves created on the pages of bark-paper books called codices. In the mid-sixteenth century ...

Jomon pottery(Shigeki Nakagome, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin) Jomon skeleton, Japan(Shigeki Nakagome, Assistant ...