Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

The hoard, dating back roughly 1,000 years, was found on the shores of the Schlei, an inlet in the Baltic Sea.

A man was out exploring North Carolina’s South River when he noticed something unusual bobbing in the water. It appeared to ...

Archaeologists in a historic city recently came across the remnants of an expansive medieval hospital. The discovery was ...

More than 1,800 years ago, the thousands of pieces formed colorful frescoes that covered the walls of a luxurious villa in ...

Crouched by King Tut’s stone sarcophagus, National Geographic technicians Eric Berkenpas and Alan Turchik prepare the radar unit to scan the tomb’s walls.

On a small rise less than 20 miles south of Tbilisi, Georgia, a clutch of round, mud-brick houses rises from a green, fertile river valley. The mound is called Gadachrili Gora, and the Stone Age ...

It is believed the frescoes once decorated at least 20 internal walls of a high-status Roman building between AD 40 and 150.

Chinese archaeologists have stumbled upon a rare set of three 1,800-year-old tombs in the southeastern city of Rizhao, filled to the brim with an ancient family’s treasure. While two of them ...

LISBJERG, DENMARK—France 24 reports that archaeologists from the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus uncovered a tenth-century […] ...

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