Archaeologists uncover a royal tomb in Egypt, but the identity of its long-lost pharaoh remains a mystery, offering clues ...

The near-complete Iron Age carnyx was used to blare eerie sounds in battle and rally troops against the enemy.

A forgotten grave near the Black Sea holds the world’s oldest processed gold, and a chilling clue to the rise and fall of ...

Artifacts Found in 57,000-Year-Old Sealed Cave Surprise Archaeologists ...

For a deminer, an object found in the ground usually represents a lethal threat. For David Simonyan, however, the soil of ...

The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, ...

An ancient pot dating back to the Sasanian era has recently been uncovered in the historic city of Deh Qaed, near Dashtestan County in Bushehr Province, southern Iran, local cultural heritage ...

Nearly two thousand years after it was carved, a Roman-era stele came to light not through a formal excavation but during ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

What’s particularly exciting about finds like this is that we just so rarely have wood preserved for that long,” the study’s lead author told NBC News.