From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

Massive Levantine-Egyptian stone head of a pharaoh, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C. Likely from a monumental sphinx, wearing royal 'nemes' headdress ...

BCE, King Hammurabi of Babylon etched a radical idea into stone: accountability . His code declared that if a builder rsquo;s negligence caused a house to collapse, killing its owner, the builder ...

Today, more than a dozen stalls specialising in stamps still line the alley, but the know-how involved in this ancient craft is fading, with only a few of the owners still making stone seals by hand.

An English woman in the small village of Whiteparish had been using this slab as a stepping stone in her garden for almost a ...

China’s Meijian is looking to position plum wine as the nation’s next big alcohol export, with a focus on both local ...

Are these ancient symbols complete words, part of words, or part of sentences? The solution will earn the successful ...

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt that cost far less than modern pieces from modern luxury designers ...

A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

Here we delve inside Egypt's pyramids to reveal their many treasures and secrets, while also shining a light on Egypt's ...

Ancient jewelry is up for auction at ... A trio of gold rings — one affixed with a carnelian stone etched with a sphinx, another made into a tiny replica of a lantern and the third crafted ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic ... with the understanding that symbolic behavior, such as art or abstract expression, emerged much ...