Chinese magic mirrors are these mind-boggling artifacts that have been around for centuries. Basically, they're made of bronze with intricate designs carved on one side. But here's where it gets wild ...

Archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old Roman camp 7,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps, with sling bullets from the Roman 3rd ...

In the province of Salerno in southern Italy, the Grotte dell’Angelo is a karst system featuring a unique network of caverns ...

In a recent study, Dr. Timur Sadykov and his colleagues analyzed the Scythian animal-style artifacts recovered from one of ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

The community living on Lake Mezzano 3,000 years ago left behind plenty of Bronze Age artifacts in addition to the wooden ...

Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

Archaeologists have uncovered at least 65 ancient tombs in Turkey, which prove the existence of an ancient city mentioned in ...