A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

The majority of the beads were found in a large cavern, worn by mostly female skeletons estimated to be between the ages 18 ...

and the result of its existence is the second edition of Sir John Evans' famous work on the “Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain.” It is now some twenty-five ...

In a remarkable breakthrough published in the journal Science Direct, a research team led by geomorphologist Professor David ...

Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable ...

Archaeologists in Egypt are working to restore the Ramesseum, a temple belonging to Ramesses II, an Old Testament pharaoh believed to have interacted with Moses in the Book of Exodus.

Inscribed in 196 B.C.E., the so-called Rosetta Stone was acquired ... to translate the ancient Greek, they turned their focus to understanding the hieroglyphics. This work fell largely to two ...

A search is underway for more than 30 fragments of the ancient Stone ... Mr Gray’s repair work resulted in as many as 34 numbered fragments of the original stone. The Commissioners for the ...

The trees can grow 150 feet or taller, and their roots can work to tear up the ancient stone work of the building as they search for soil. The Queen Elizabeth Oak is an ancient tree growing near ...

The ancient Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs had been invented by the gods. The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient ...

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part ...