The 2,200-year-old Wuwangdun tomb, near modern Huainan, is believed to be the largest and most luxurious tomb ever found in ...

Researchers have identified evidence of human activity in Tasmania 41,600 years ago, according to a report in Cosmos Magazine ...

LOMBARDY, ITALY—La Brújula Verde reports that a hiker in 2017 noticed petroglyphs at the foot of the Pizzo Tresero glacier in ...

The Guardian reports that a narrow shaft containing the remains of more than 100 people was discovered near Leicester ...

NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...

Like most urban areas, ancient Pompeii had residences of all types, including sprawling villas, smaller city houses, and multistory apartment buildings. Few of its homes, however, were as grand as ...

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 ...

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 ...

DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a CNN report, the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah has been discovered in Iraq using historical accounts and declassified images taken by American spy satellites ...

Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology ...

Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century A.D. An 8th-century A.D. mural unearthed at the city of Panjakent in modern ...