BBC News reports that excavations at the site of King Arthur’s Hall on Bodmin Moor, which scholars once thought had been ...

Glasgow Times reports that volunteers from Clutha Archaeology Group, in collaboration with Archaeology Scotland […] ...

Ahram Online reports that a tomb dated to the Middle Kingdom period has been discovered in the Asasif necropolis at Thebes, which is located on the western bank of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. The 4 ...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—NBC News reports that forensic artist Oscar Nilsson has reconstructed the face of Zosia, a woman who was buried with the blade of a sickle across her neck some 400 years ago.

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 ...

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 ...

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Edo people of the Kingdom of Benin, which controlled territory on the west coast of Africa that is now part of Nigeria, produced thousands of ...

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 ...

A small crack in a vaulted ceiling led archaeologists to a new room of the Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” the immense pleasure palace built by the emperor Nero after a fire devastated Rome in ...

A ruler wearing a nasal prosthesis looms over a captive in a Late Classic panel from a temple at Palenque in Chiapas. The captive wears paper earrings, which were rough and uncomfortable by design.