Cosmos Magazine reports that researchers led by Vito Hernandez of Flinders University are reconstructing the environment of ...

Ancestor series, Canterbury Cathedral, England (left) and a panel depicting the prophet Nathan (right) Among Canterbury Cathedral’s architectural wonders are its ornate, centuries-old stained ...

At least two families in Oxford, England, may have followed a kosher diet more than 900 years ago. Archaeologists have uncovered remnants of two adjoining houses that were owned by Jewish families ...

A monumental Minoan building surrounding a 110-foot-long courtyard has been uncovered at Sissi on the northern coast of Crete. Built around 1700 B.C. and featuring finely plastered floors, the ...

Ruined farmstead, Loch Ard Forest, Scotland (Courtesy Matt Ritchie) Terrestrial laser-scan image of farmstead(Courtesy Matt Ritchie) Amid the ruins of two eighteenth ...

Excavations at the Israeli site of Tell es-Safi have revealed the ruins of the city of Gath, which was occupied by the Philistines during most of the Iron Age (ca. 1200–539 B.C.)(Courtesy Aren ...

According to a twelfth-century legend, the island of Selja is the birthplace of Norwegian Christianity and the location where the country’s only female martyr, a tenth-century a.d. Irish ...

While excavating a palace at the site of Megiddo in northern Israel in the 1930s, a team of University of Chicago archaeologists uncovered a small ceramic jug containing 44 silver objects.

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis.

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 ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.