According to a CNN report, the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah has been discovered in Iraq using historical accounts and ...

MAGELANG, INDONESIA—Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and their colleagues developed a neural ...

DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Durham University, 15,800-year-old engravings depicting fish caught in traps or nets have been identified among the more than 400 engraved ...

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND—Glasgow Times reports that volunteers from Clutha Archaeology Group, in collaboration with Archaeology Scotland and Countryside Ranger Service, have unearthed artifacts that ...

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 ...

CAMBODIA: Workers searching through a pile of debris for fallen roof stones from the Ta Nei Temple in Angkor unexpectedly unearthed the head of an ancient bodhisattva statue. The sculpture, which ...

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet ...

Runestone(Alexis Pantos/Museum of Cultural History/University of Oslo) ...

While digging beneath an early third-century A.D. officers’ clubhouse at the site of the Roman fort of Vindolanda in northern England, archaeologists unearthed a rare copper alloy mouthpiece ...

Lapis lazuli (left) and scribe’s teeth (right)(Courtesy Christina Warinner) Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century author Ultramarine, a brilliant blue pigment, was so dearly coveted in ...

In the very early years of the twentieth century, the Stobs Military Camp served as a training ground and living quarters. Just before World War I, it was the place where Scotland readied for combat.

5th Dynasty Egyptian Tomb(Courtesy Mohamed Megahed) Tomb painting detail(Courtesy Mohamed Megahed) During investigation of the funerary complex of the 5th Dynasty ...