Archaeologists in Egypt have found a tightly packed rock-cut chamber containing dozens of beautiful painted coffins. The discovery, which also included a cache of rare papyri, was made in the Asasif ...

A rare Roman temple dedicated to mystery cult deity Mithras was discovered in Germany, with the oldest-known sanctuary in Bavaria dating to the first or second centuries A.D.

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Imagine a vast underground palace, brimming with treasures and guarded by an army of stone warriors, sealed tight for over two millennia. This is the .

Nestled in the sun-drenched plains of Alicante province, the quaint Spanish town of Villena guards a secret that bridges earth and sky. Back in 1963, workers digging a gravel pit stumbled upon the ...

Forget hard drives. Scientists just figured out how to store all of humanity's data on glass, and it could last longer than most civilizations ever did.

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in ...

In their quest to better understand the ancient world, from the depths of Lake Huron to the deserts of Sudan, archaeo ...

There's something profoundly captivating about the phrase "lost to time." Throughout history, countless treasures, cities, ...

For the first time since it sank more than 160 years ago, the public is getting a high-definition look at the Civil War’s ...

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

Further south, in the Don River basin, the menu changed. There, the “chefs” were obsessed with seeds. The foodcrusts were packed with wild grasses and wild legumes, like clover, all cooked together ...