This image, provided by the National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage, shows tobacco pipes unearthed from ...

Turin's Museo Egizio is celebrating its bicentennial with a gallery redesign, new exhibits, and commissions from contemporary ...

The fifth-century artifact was found in the ruins of a structure that may have been connected to the military. Historians ...

One of the rarest finds at Løsning was the 1,500-year-old chainmail shirt. “Only a very small number of chainmail shirts from ...

Ryabkov: Russia may deploy missiles in Asia Pacific region in response to U.S. actions ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what could be the oldest alphabet in human history, etched onto small clay cylinders discovered ...

Archaeological discoveries indicate that alphabetic writing dates back 500 years earlier than previously believed. What ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

An exhibition showcasing ancient Greece opened in Beijing, China, offering a rare glimpse of artifacts on loan from Greek museums.

BCE clay cylinders with oldest known alphabetic writing were uncovered in Syria, challenging the origins of the alphabet.