A New Orleans couple doing yard work behind their house unexpectedly found a Roman headstone of a solider who died 1,900 ...

Roman soldier Sextus Congenius Verus was buried 1,900 years ago in Italy. So how did his grave marker end up in a backyard in ...

Strange New Worlds Season 3 delivered one of the most emotional and game-changing finales in the series yet — and there’s a ...

Archaeologists find an intact medieval sandal in bearded vulture nests in Spain, preserved for seven centuries on a cliff.

Jim Sanborn planned to auction off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters ...

The people who help run the Michigan State University Surplus Store come across thousands of donated books each month but ...

The mother of a 12-year-old girl whose remains were found last week in a storage bin outside of an abandoned home in Connecticut has been charged in her death, along with ...

Archaeologists are uncovering pieces of early history as an Ohio tavern continues reconstruction following a fire last ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for.

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

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 ...