The 2,200-year-old Wuwangdun tomb, near modern Huainan, is believed to be the largest and most luxurious tomb ever found in ...

Researchers have identified evidence of human activity in Tasmania 41,600 years ago, according to a report in Cosmos Magazine ...

LOMBARDY, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that a hiker in 2017 noticed petroglyphs at the foot of the Pizzo Tresero glacier in ...

The Guardian reports that a narrow shaft containing the remains of more than 100 people was discovered near Leicester ...

Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology ...

According to a CNN report, the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah has been discovered in Iraq using historical accounts and ...

NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...

A spiral temple sits atop a 3,000-year-old burial mound known as Montegrande in northern Peru’s Amazon region.(Courtesy Quirino Olivera Nuñez) The Amazon jungle wasn’t supposed to have been ...

TAMPA, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the University of South Florida, Davide Tanasi and his colleagues have identified evidence of hallucinogens in a 2,000-year-old mug shaped as ...

The Greek philosopher Thales, who was born in the seventh century B.C. in the city of Miletus on the coast of ancient Anatolia, espoused the principle that water was the arche, or beginning, of ...

In no other matter did he act more wasteful than in building a house that stretched from the Palatine to the Esquiline Hill, which he originally named “Transitoria” [House of Passages], but ...

Wall painting depicting Phaedra and Hippolytus from the House of Phaedra, Pompeii, Italy ...