According to a CNN report, the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah has been discovered in Iraq using historical accounts and ...

HAMMAR, SWEDEN—Newsweek reports that a Neolithic ceremonial site estimated to be between 5,000 and 5,500 years old has been discovered in southern Sweden. The large causewayed enclosure is ...

Ruins of Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City. Clockwise from top left: ear flare, Tlaloc mask (2), lightning bolt scepter(Mirsa Islas Orozco/Courtesy of ...

Perhaps the most common Egyptian demons were the ghosts of one’s immediate family members. Often the spirits of the recently deceased were invoked in ritual texts that asked for their blessings ...

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—The Associated Press reports that sandstone sculptures depicting door guardians have been unearthed near the north gate of the Royal Palace at Angkor Thom, the last capital ...

CORNWALL, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that excavations at the site of King Arthur's Hall on Bodmin Moor, which scholars once thought had been constructed in the medieval period, yielded evidence ...

CAMPECHE, MEXICO—According to a BBC News report, the ruins of a Maya city have been discovered under jungle canopy in southeastern Mexico, just a 15-minute hike from a major road. The city is ...

Rectangular burnt house with remains of built installations and vessels for food storage, Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia SVINJARIČKA ČUKA, SERBIA—According to a Newsweek report, traces of an 8,000 ...

A tree stump from an ancient submerged forest that is at least 6,000 years old protrudes from a beach at low tide at Pett Level in Sussex, England. (M.J. Thomas) (Ken Feisel) Experts from the ...

These buildings at the site of Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey are more than 11,000 years old, making them some of the world’s earliest monumental structures. The settlement includes ...

An aerial view of Baydha, a settlement beside the Shara Mountains and north of Petra’s famous city center that contains archaeological evidence spanning more than 10,000 years.(Robert Bewley ...

A 3,500-year-old ritual pool reflects a little-known culture’s agrarian prowess On a hilltop at the edge of the town of Noceto on northern Italy’s Po Plain, a 2004 construction project had ...