Later, a man who said he was an archaeologist stumbled across the treasures and flagged them to one of the thrift shop’s ...

There are undoubtedly millions of amazing artifacts from the ancient world that have served to shed light on the lives of our ancestors from many millennia ago. But some stand out for their uniqueness ...

Two ancient Roman bronze dodecahedrons and an icosahedron (3rd c. AD) in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, Germany. The dodecahedrons were excavated in Bonn and Frechen-Bachem; the icosahedron in ...

Priced at only $30, a collection of rings and medallions discovered in a thrift store in Chilliwack, Canada, has been donated to Simon Fraser University for research.

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War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at a loss. One such oddity — a ragged chunk of leather — is part of the Civil ...

Ancient Egyptian guards may have used a tiny cow bone with a hole drilled into it to keep royal tomb workers in order. The strange artifact was discovered in the Akhetaten Stone Village, a workers' ...

Many objects have been lost to the annals of time. So, too, have some objects’ meanings. Like, say, this one that’s been puzzling scientists for almost three centuries now. According to LiveScience, ...

Archaeologists uncovered stunning artifacts, including coins and turquoise-colored beads found in children's graves, ...

Archaeologists and divers returned to the 2,000-year-old Antikythera wreck in Greece and found dozens of artifacts, photos show. Photo from Return to Antikythera Off the coast of a Greek island sits ...