Across the world’s continental shelves, scientists are racing to reconstruct an ancient landscape that once stretched where ...

Greece's Ministry of Culture has announced exciting new discoveries from the 2025 excavations at Ancient Tenea ...

Step beyond the crowded Sistine Chapel and explore the Vatican Museums like never before. From the colossal Pinecone Courtyard to the lifelike Apoxyomenos and the dramatic Laocoön and His Sons, ...

The Colosseum, inaugurated in A.D. 80, seated 50,000 and hosted gladiatorial games, ritual animal hunts, parades and executions. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images The Romans started making concrete ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from ...

A professor at the University of Kentucky used AI to digitally unwrap ancient scrolls. A computer science professor at the University of Kentucky led a successful effort to digitally unwrap ancient ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...

The global retreat of glaciers and ice patches is both well-documented and concerning, a clear calling card from a warming world. And all around the globe, archaeologists have been springing into ...

Nowadays, most people associate artificial intelligence with language models like ChatGPT. However, machine learning can do more than generate text. In the fields of archaeology and philology, A.I. is ...

Archaeologists confronted by a false door at an excavation site were stunned to find that it led to the tomb of Egyptian royalty. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the ...

A pair of pedestrians recently stumbled across an ancient deadly weapon in a peaceful and most unlikely location: a beach in Poland. The artifact, a 2,500-year-old dagger, was found on March 30.