An underwater archaeologist documents a 2,500-year-old shipwreck discovered off the southern tip of Sicily. An iron anchor ...

ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration ...

It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian ...

According to an Associated Press report, researchers have found the location of a cemetery where at least 28 enslaved people ...

Tile floor repaired with bones, Alkmaar, The Netherlands. ALKMAAR, THE NETHERLANDS—According to a report in the NL Times, ...

Scientists at the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA) have analyzed an 1,800-year-old silver artifact discovered in a ...

She and her colleagues found no gunpowder residue inside the gun barrel, suggesting that it was not fired in the course of ...

Medieval roasting hearth and oven base, Oxford, England. OXFORD, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, archaeologists have ...

ATHENS, GREECE—Greece repatriated more than 1,000 ancient coins to Turkey at a ceremony in Athens attended by Greece’s Culture Minister Lina Mendoni and Turkey’s Culture Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, ...

The White Shaman rock shelter in southwest Texas is the site of a prehistoric mural, some 13 feet tall and 26 feet wide. The painting is still visible in the protected, concave area beneath the ...

These individual finds began to create a picture of an enormous, previously unknown necropolis that the team eventually ...