Norway's melting glaciers are revealing objects from the Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the medieval era. Some ancient artifacts are mysteries, but they still indicate trade routes through the mountains ...

Children in Ancient Greece played with figurines that, much like modern Barbies, reflected the society and aspirations of ...

Two of the items were given to the Egyptian embassy in Washington by an unnamed American citizen who felt they should be ...

Archaeologists working at Gela in southern Sicily have recovered a remarkably delicate, 5th-century BC bone stylus that blends the everyday with the provocative: a carved head - likely Dionysus - and, ...

A stunning hoard of destroyed – yet still insightful – two-millennia-old artifacts were recently brought to light by archaeologists in the United Kingdom. The discovery was announced by Durham ...

Imagine stumbling upon an object so strange, so impossible to explain, that it throws everything you thought you knew about ...

When the Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Museum officially reopens on Oct. 13, it will celebrate both 140-plus years of existence and a new chapter in its life as a teaching collection for the ...

One of only three Celtic battle horns ever found in the U.K., the carnyx unearthed in West Norfolk could yield new insights into Iron Age warfare, ritual and sound.

In a cave that hardly a soul had entered in 500 years, two cave dwellers discovered 14 exquisite artifacts from an ancient but under-recorded Mexican culture. After two cave explorers tipped off ...