According to a Science in Poland report, Marta Osypińska of the University of Wrocław and Piotr Osypiński of the Polish ...

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.

According to a VN Express report, the remains of 32 Vietnamese soldiers and wartime artifacts were discovered in Vietnam’s Central Highlands during the construction of a house. The family building the ...

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 ...

DOVER, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, a pit containing waste materials perhaps left behind by a pub was unearthed during an investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in ...

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis.

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.

AHMEDABAD, INDIA—Analysis of fatty residues in pottery recovered from a burial in Surkotada, a Harappan site in northwestern India, indicates that people boiled and fried their food, according ...

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 ...

OSTRÁ LÚKA, SLOVAKIA—According to a report in The Slovak Spectator, a geophysical survey conducted at the site of the Church of the Epiphany in central Slovakia’s town of Ostrá Lúka has ...

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 ...