A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson has donated it to Leeds Museums and Galleries ...

"It's a kind of notice board … where people left messages, history, greetings, insults, drawings and much more." ...

Art officials present a newly-restored ancient brothel in the archaeological complex of Pompeii, believed to be the most ...

Aden Kahr Humans have long been fascinated by crystals. Archaeological evidence suggests our ancestors have treasured small quartz and calcite stones for at least 780,000 years, often bringing them ...

The bones of a whale that died at North Myrtle Beach 40 years ago were supposed to be displayed at SC's state museum. But it ...

New research suggests seabird guano helped transform the Chincha Kingdom into one of the most prosperous societies in ancient Peru. Chemical clues in centuries-old maize show farmers fertilized their ...

Call it the “superlative dialect.” Nothing is ever simply a win—it’s instead the greatest victory that there absolutely ever was.

WASHINGTON, DC- The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has announced that it will return three historic South Indian bronze sculptures to India after provenance research established that the ...

Early hunter-gatherers in southern Africa may have been doing more than just decorating their makeshift water bottles. A new study in the journal PLOS One suggests that engravings on 60,000-year-old ...

"Only the use of technology can guarantee a future for all this memory of life lived in Pompeii." ...

The spider-shaped sword ornament was created in Ghana in the 19th century and was passed down in a Texas family for ...

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