The recently discovered tombs are around 650 feet long and 13 feet high, and are oriented with their entrances facing east.

During construction of new powerlines through Saxony-Anhalt, workers uncovered numerous ancient burials from various […] ...

Humans have been making and using wooden tools for over one million years, but since they decompose quickly, they rarely ...

Reuters reports that Peruvian authorities announced the discovery of a major lost ancient city in the country’s Barranca ...

A fragment of marble column dating to the fifth century b.c. unearthed at the site of Casas del Turuñuelo in southwestern ...

Underwater archaeologists located the remains of a Roman-era breakwater at the site of the ancient harbor of Misenum on the ...

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him ...

Thousands of fantastical bronzes are beginning to reveal the secrets of a legendary Chinese dynasty ...

An archaeologist excavates one of the ceramic urns at the site of Lago do Cochila in Fonte Boa, Brazil. LAGO DO CHOCILA, ...