When we think of the crusading orders of the Middle Ages, we think of the Knights Templar, the legendary warrior-monks who amassed unimaginable wealth before being brutally suppressed by the King of ...

Mithras, a deity with ancient Iranian roots associated with contracts and light, was widely worshipped across the Roman Empire from the 2nd to the 4th centuries AD. The cult was particularly popular ...

During Japan's Kofun Period (250–538 AD), no fully centralized imperial state governed the archipelago, but a powerful Yamato polity was gradually consolidating authority over m ...

This second set of remains belonged to what the world would come to know as the Starchild Skull. For nearly a century, this artifact has served as a battlefield between those who believe in ...

In October 1938, Italian archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri made a remarkable discovery during excavations at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii — a small, intricately carved ivory statuette of a female ...

In an astonishing blend of archaeology and baking, scientists have successfully cultivated ancient, cold-adapted yeast found on the body of Ötzi the Iceman to bake sourdough bread. This remarkable ...

Paris has long been a city built on its own past, but rarely has that truth been made quite so literal as it is today beneath ...

Tartessos was a land of myths and riches. The advanced culture of the people thrived on the southern Iberian Peninsula near the Guadalquivir River, an area now known as Andalusia, Spain. The story of ...

An amateur metal detectorist scanning a quiet field in South Somerset has made a spectacular discovery that is rewriting our understanding of late third-century Roman Britain. Kev ...

The most striking find is a heavily damaged wooden hull located inside the harbor, pinned down by a pile of ballast stones. The ship's planks were connected by wooden treenails, a typical 18th-century ...

How was iron produced 2,000 years ago in Senegal? A recent study at the Didé West 1 archaeological site, in the Falémé Valley ...

First discovered in 1912 by the prominent British geologist William Sollas and the French archaeologist Abbé Henri Breuil, the markings were initially celebrated as the first specimen of prehistoric ...