The discovery’s highlight was a 247-pound cannon from the Ming dynasty, but archaeologists also found remains of crops and ...

Interns funded by a UC-HBCU grant learned key professional skills and found their calling while excavating an archaeological ...

Roman military officers stationed in Egypt kept pet monkeys imported from India as a symbol of wealth, according to a new ...

Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem recently discovered a massive Hanukkah-era wall from an ancient power struggle between Hasmonean ...

Long before Islam spread across Central Asia, the Mongols and Turks followed a complex spiritual world centered around Tengri ...

Christos Tsirogiannis has spent almost two decades trawling through inventories of museums, auction houses and other collections for illegally trafficked antiquities.

After more than a century of speculation, researchers have traced the likely origins of the legendary Hjortspring boat through chemical analysis of its construction materials and the discovery of an ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the longest remains of an ancient wall that once encircled Jerusalem during the time of ...

A 2,000-year-old tomb discovered in Heerlen, Netherlands, contained the remains of a Roman soldier. The site was first ...

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