Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most ...

An increasing number of jewelry designers have been incorporating ancient artifacts into contemporary designs, producing the kind of distinctive creations that people crave today. While the practice ...

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Across Egypt, drill holes and stone cores show strange grooves and machining signatures carved into granite, basalt, and diorite. Researchers say some of these marks look like spiral cutting, implying ...

Tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina, a quirky treasure awaits cat lovers and curious travelers alike. The American ...

On a family walk through one of Israel’s most storied archaeological sites, a 3-year-old girl made an astonishing discovery.

Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...

Before the Roman Empire began building massive structures, a vast stone water basin was built in nearby city of Gabii ...

The construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt has long remained a mystery to archaeologists, because ancient texts did not ...