Deep inside a remote Mexican cave, a pair of explorers thought they had stumbled on modern litter, the kind of plastic and ...

Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed artifacts buried deep in a well for nearly 2,000 years on the outskirts of Rome. Italy’s Ministry of Culture said the roughly 10-foot-deep well in the ancient ...

A trove of archaeological artifacts - including thousands of ancient coins - has been discovered during excavations at a home ...

Lublin Provincial Conservator of Monuments, an organization dedicated to the protection of ancient artifacts in Poland, revealed the discovery of various treasures, including silver coins, and among ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

This is the first time archaeologists have found an image of a major god inside an Assyrian palace. In war-torn Mosul, archaeologists unearth the largest-known image of the ancient Assyrian king ...

An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the ...

Efforts to repatriate Greek artifacts from abroad, such as the campaign to reclaim the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum, tend to get all the attention. But the biggest, latest news on the ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Abu Khaled knows the worth of things. As a small-time smuggler living along the porous border between Syria and Lebanon, he has dabbled in antiquities as much as the cigarettes, stolen goods and ...