Planks of medieval shipwreck on the seafloor off the coast of Copenhagen, Denmark Painted wooden dish. COPENHAGEN, ...

PLOVDIV, BULGARIA—According to a report in The Sofia Globe, an intact Thracian temple dated to the third century B.C. has been discovered in a mound in south-central Bulgaria, on the outskirts of the ...

According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona, people living some 5,000 years ago in the ...

An array of luxurious artifacts was discovered in the tomb of Feng Sufu, a Northern Yan Dynasty (a.d. 407–436) general, near the city of Beipiao in northeastern China. These include (clockwise from ...

A 65-foot-tall mudbrick temple known as the Deffufa was constructed some 4,000 years ago as the spiritual center of the ancient Nubian capital of Kerma in northern Sudan. As the Nile slices through ...

According to a report in The Guardian, more than 800 broken whetstones have been found in northern England on the banks of ...

Saxon cemetery containing at least 11 burial mounds has been found near the coast in the East of England, about 15 miles from the site of Sutton Hoo, where an Anglo-Saxon ship burial was excavated in ...

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 ...

Live Science reports that Catalina Morales and Francisco Garrido of Chile’s National Museum of Natural History examined the 1,100-year-old remains of a man unearthed in the Atacama Desert. At the time ...

A nearly complete Celtic battle trumpet, or carnyx, and parts of a second one were found in the hoard, in addition to a bronze boar head from a military standard and five shield bosses. “The carnyces ...

Bernardo Arriaza of the University of Tarapacá thinks that the Chinchorro people may have developed the practice of artificial mummification as a response to grief brought about by high infant ...

Hunting with poison arrows has been pushed back to 60,000 years ago, according to a Live Science report. Sven Isaksson of Stockholm University and his colleagues detected traces of poison in residues ...