Ancient written sources record that when Alexander the Great returned to Mesopotamia from the Indus Valley around 324 b.c., he founded a strategic new port in the region, known as Alexandria on the ...

A beautifully crafted sword was among the many extraordinary burial objects—including knives, spears, brooches, […] ...

Around 4,600 years ago, a Neolithic Chinese civilization known as the Shijiahe culture flourished in the Middle Yangtze ...

Inca polities on Peru’s south coast,” says Bongers. “They were particularly famous for their mercantile activity.” The Band ...

These figures stood in stark contrast to those the visitors had seen in the exquisite painting of a Dionysian initiation at a recent party in an opulent seaside villa. Holding a wine glass in one hand ...

According to a report in Haaretz, archaeologists have discovered two small pieces of hide connected by a cord in Cougar ...

According to an RTÉ report, a burial pit containing the remains of at least 10 people, likely young men buried after a battle or a mass execution, was uncovered in eastern England by a team from ...

A team of archaeologists and speleologists have identified underground aqueduct tunnels and natural springs that supplied ...

ZME Science reports that a metal detectorist recovered a four-inch copper-alloy carriage ornament in Essex. The figure, now ...

Excavated erdstall passage, Reinstedt, Germany Medieval horseshoe and ceramic fragments. REINSTEDT, GERMANY—According to a La ...

A survey of rock art in Wadi Khamila conducted by Mustafa Nour El-Din of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Ludwig Morenz of the University of Bonn revealed a 5,000-year-old ...

Phys.org reports that an excavation at the Holzman archaeological site in central Alaska’s Tanana Valley has uncovered ivory ...