Giant “dragon stones” found across the Armenian highlands were shaped and installed by an ancient “water cult”, archaeologists revealed in a new study. The pillar stones carved in animal shapes and ...

High-resolution scans of ancient Egyptian stone vases reveal levels of precision that are difficult to explain with known ancient tools. Scientists analyzing the data say the measurements, symmetry, ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a devastating volcanic eruption destroyed and entombed a thriving Roman city, researchers are turning to the novel technique of digital archaeology to reveal the “lost Pompeii ...

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful rival of Rome. The discovery was found in the ancient ruins of Gabii, about ...

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a frozen shoreline in what’s now Japan or Russia, staring east across the gray ...

Pity the Romans. Their sculpture is often compared unfavorably to that of the Greeks. While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, ...

Building on the research of Sir Flinders Petrie, this investigation dives deeper into the enigmatic stone cores and drill marks found across ancient Egypt — and now, in sites as far away as Peru. The ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

Archaeologists working in northern Egypt uncovered a tablet rivaling the Rosetta Stone in its importance to decoding ancient language. Trnava University via Unsplash When Napoleon’s army accidentally ...

Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a ...

Seven stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are the earliest evidence ever discovered of ancient humans making a sea crossing, dating back up to 1.4 million years. They may provide ...