The story of the Lemnian Stele (also known as the Kaminia Stele) begins in 1885 in the village of Kaminia on the Greek island ...

Sara Yorke Stevenson's time in Mexico in the 19th century coincided with momentous events, which she wrote about from an ...

Just because you’re not looking for buried treasure doesn’t mean you won’t find it. Case in point, a man digging a pool ...

A French archaeological mission at the San El-Hagar site in Tanis has uncovered 225 ushabti figurines belonging to King Shoshenq III of the 22nd Dynasty in Egypt, which experts hailed as the most ...

New research shows that domestic dogs began diversifying at least 11,000 years ago, long before modern breeding. A major ...

Turkish creativity is taking center stage in Paris, turning art, archaeology and photography into a shared conversation ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...

Evidence from a prehistoric cave system indicates non-ritualistic cannibalism of Neanderthal women and children.

Historian Elizabeth Ellis is a key player in an exhibition that brings to light the little-known diplomatic history. An ...

The Grand Tour was the utlimate Georgian / Victorian gap year experience. Expensive and glamourous, this was a rite of ...