Switzerland is making a significant move in the process of correcting the wrongs of colonial history with the return of eighteen of the looted Benin Bronzes. The ceremony for the transfer of the ...

A rare prehistoric cave, estimated to be around 300,000 years old, is a “time capsule,” sealed for hundreds of thousands of years. A research team from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ...

Why so many Roman coin hoards end up being buried and never found has baffled archaeologists for decades. A major new study has shown that the non-recovery of these hoarded treasures was caused by ...

In Western Christianity, the feast of Epiphany, also known as Three Kings’ Day, is celebrated annually on the 6th January to commemorate the visit of the Magi, wise men, or kings from the East to the ...

Archaeologists in the Dutch city of Nijmegen have made an extraordinary discovery: the largest Roman bathhouse complex ever found in the Netherlands. Unearthed in the Waalfront district, an area ...

Then advances in ancient DNA revealed a story of this child, buried over ten thousand years ago. It was a story far greater than anyone could have guessed. The child known to archaeologists as the ...

Analysis of ancient proteins extracted from the fossilized teeth of Homo naledi has revealed a startling new twist in the ongoing mystery of South Africa’s Rising Star cave system. Researchers have ...

There is a strange, almost uncomfortable moment that happens when you read the Old Testament closely. You are moving through the narrative, following the timeline of the ancient Israelites, when ...

If you spend enough time looking at the lower levels of 19th-century buildings in any major Western city, you will eventually notice something strange. The windows of the ground floor often sit below ...

A remarkably preserved bronze sword dating back around 2,700 years has been unearthed in a forest near Gdańsk, Poland. The find offers archaeologists a rare opportunity to investigate how prestigious ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

Roughly halfway between Europe and North America, nine volcanic islands rise from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They sit atop a vast submerged plateau, a triangular mass of thickened crust ...