Around four in the morning on March 28, 2017, a security guard called the police from Berlin’s Bode Museum, urging them to ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

About 3,500 years ago, in a bend of the Mississippi River in what is now northeastern Louisiana, groups of hunter-gatherers ...

In European culture lies the story of a man whose real life faded into the mists of time, only to be reborn as one of the ...

The image most people have of the Great Wall of China is that of a single, imposing stone line snaking through the mountains.

Where a stormwater retention basin is now planned, archaeologists have uncovered an unexpected testimony of Roman presence in this region of Upper Bavaria. During construction work carried out in the ...

In the heart of the ancient Roman city of Gabii, located just 11 miles east of Rome, archaeologists discovered the remains of a massive stone-lined basin, partly carved directly into the bedrock.

In the 14th century, there was a word whose mere pronunciation provoked terror: plague. Although it was not a pandemic ...

For centuries, an enigma has remained hidden within the pages of the Dresden Codex, one of the few precious Maya books that ...

The apparent calm of the turquoise waters of Gan Ha-Shelosha National Park hides, beneath its surface, the architecture of a ...

Imagine the loneliest place on the planet. A place in the ocean where the nearest piece of land is more than 1,600 miles away ...

The Nahal Mishmar Hoard is an archaeological discovery of more than 400 copper objects from the Chalcolithic period, found in ...