About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

Four medieval spearheads have been found in Lake Lednica in Poland. One may have belonged to a nobleman or prince.

Archaeologists have unearthed a 12,000-year-old figurine that shows evidence of pyrotechnology thousands of years before the ...

Indonesia and China are strengthening their strategic cooperation in the management of underwater maritime heritage, particularly the ...

A simple turn of the wrist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2023 has unveiled a centuries-old mystery about ancient Roman craftsmen. Washington State University art history professor ...

The 3.7-centimeter-tall (1.5-inch) artifact was discovered at Nahal Ein Gev II, an archaeological site in modern-day northern Israel near the Sea of Galilee. Dating to over 12,000 years, it was ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what is believed to be the world’s oldest sculpture showing a human interacting with an animal ...

C hina has hit the jackpot, once again, after discovering one of the largest deposits of gold ever recorded in the country’s ...

Once placed in tombs to serve the dead in the afterlife, Egyptian shabtis are getting a new kind of immortality, thanks to ...

Archaeology often speaks to us through stones, bones, and ceramics. Rarely does it return the intimate voice of everyday acts ...

The Flying Fortress cumulatively dropped more bombs than any other plane during World War II, but those numbers came at a ...