The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

Archaeologists working on the idyllic Italian island of Sardinia have unearthed a series of “fairy houses,” officials from the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the ...

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Common misconceptions about medieval life are being overturned at William the Conqueror's newly restored Norwich Castle.

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The limestone chamber is marked with inscriptions identifying the deceased and honoring the deity Jupiter. Officials say it's the first tomb of its kind to be found in the country ...

After emigrating to Chile, Swiss entrepreneur Louis Kuffré began amassing and donating various archaeological finds to his ...

In the unassuming city of Springfield, Ohio sits a wonderland so vast and packed with treasures that it defies ordinary description. The Heart of Ohio Antique Center isn’t just big—it’s a ...

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, but at Urban Ore in Berkeley, California, everyone’s trash becomes everyone’s treasure in a sprawling wonderland of secondhand splendor. This isn’t ...

But unlike Egypt or Chile, where extensive mummies have been uncovered, that have dry environments where the drying out can occur naturally, southeast Asia is humid, hot and wet, according to the ...

Resting on the seafloor was a remarkably preserved bronze helmet, complete with cheek guards still intact. The helmet is in ...

Archaeologists in Sinai uncovered ancient copper workshops and buildings at Wadi al-Nasb, revealing Egypt’s millennia-old mining industry.