Many scholars who have studied the question have come up with theories about the location of Alexander the Great’s final resting place, which has made this one of the most hotly debated mysteries in a ...

In 2014, a remarkable and unprecendented discovery was made in a plowed field in western Scotland—the Galloway Hoard, the most significant collection of Viking Age artifacts ever unearthed in Britain ...

At the ancient Motza site, researchers unearthed a tomb dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (7,100 to 6,700 BC). The burial contained the remains of a woman who may have held a ...

During explorations in the rugged and arid Negev Highlands of southern Israel, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities authority (IAA) stumbled upon something both extraordinary and totally unexpec ...

Thoroughly excavated and well-analyzed cult sites are essential for comprehending the evolving and diverse ritual behaviors of different pre-Christian societies.

Thirty feet (9.14 m) under the surface of the cold, murky Baltic Sea, Brendan Foley spotted something unusual in the wreckage of an ancient ship.

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars.

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone, which may be more than 2,000 years old, shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.

The great civilizations of the ancient Americas were incredibly active and productive, and new evidence of their industriousness and ambition has been discovered at a well-known archaeological hot spo ...

The so-called 'alien mummies' discovered in Peru, supposedly near the Nazca lines, have been dismissed as a hoax by skeptics and most of the scientific community, with claims that a definitive study r ...

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