According to an El País report, a team of researchers led by Carlos Odriozola of the University of Seville has studied ...

The fourth-century a.d. Chronicles of Huayang, the oldest surviving Chinese geographical survey, records that Sichuan was ...

CHIFENG CITY, CHINA—ARTnews reports that more than 100 jade dragon figurines have been recovered from a burial mound in Mongolia’s Yuanbaoshan archaeological site. The figurines have been ...

BLIND RIVER, ONTARIO—CBC News reports that the Canadian Museum of History has repatriated the skull of a child, the skull of an older adult, and a collection of artifacts to the Mississauga ...

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA—Cosmos Magazine reports that researchers led by Vito Hernandez of Flinders University are reconstructing the environment of Tam Pà Ling cave in northeastern Laos between ...

In his On the Embassy to Gaius, the first-century a.d. historian Philo of Alexandria recounts a diplomatic mission he led from Egypt to Rome seeking intervention on behalf of Alexandria’s Jews.

In the early days of archaeology, excavators used objects such as shoeboxes, beer crates, and even matchboxes to store artifacts. In some cases, museum workers have assembled collections of these ...

The monstrous creatures of Greek myth, such as the giant one-eyed Cyclops, may have been inspired by large fossils of extinct animals, which are plentiful in Greece. Scholars surmise that fossil ...

According to a twelfth-century legend, the island of Selja is the birthplace of Norwegian Christianity and the location where the country’s only female martyr, a tenth-century a.d. Irish ...

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

We gather much of what we know about Maya astronomical knowledge from detailed records they themselves created on the pages of bark-paper books called codices. In the mid-sixteenth century ...