The little-known ancient Greek city of Europos has started to unveil its secrets in a new wave of excavations that started in ...

See it →Metal detectorist unearths ancient gold item — and stuns experts ... The areas had large pieces of Middle and Late Iron Age pottery, as well as other cooking vessels and a spindle ...

The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast and bacteria that was hibernating in the pores of the museum’s ancient ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Archaeologists uncovered a large, 500-year-old kiln and pottery artifacts during construction at an elementary school, officials said. Photo from Central Bedfordshire Council A planned ...

490-480 BC). The scene is thought to depict Hercules’ attack on the city of Troy. (Glyptothek, Munich). Credit: Egisto Sani, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The issue of who was considered Greek during the ...

A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams with sniffer dogs and send instructions to residents including a request ...

Archeologists have searched for the ancient Trojan city of Tenea since 1984. They believe they have just now uncovered it. Before this excavation, the only knowledge that historians and experts had ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley ... huge fortified walls and exquisite pottery and terra cotta artistry.

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time ...