Underwater archaeologists located the remains of a Roman-era breakwater at the site of the ancient harbor of Misenum on the ...

Alaska Public Media reports that archaeologists from the Alutiiq Museum have discovered several new Native American village sites on Shuyak Island, which is located in the Kodiak Archipelago. The ...

An archaeologist excavates one of the ceramic urns at the site of Lago do Cochila in Fonte Boa, Brazil. LAGO DO CHOCILA, ...

Some 100 major temples towered over the landscape of Roman Egypt, though today only six still stand. One of the best preserved sits in a residential neighborhood in the modern city of Esna on the ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the ...

DUMAT AL-JANDAL, SAUDI ARABIA—New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown fortified enclosures, La Brújula Verde reports. Known as ...

Eretria, one of ancient Greece’s most prominent and influential city-states during the sixth and fifth centuries b.c., lay just off the mainland on the island of Euboea. Meaning “town of ...

A hill in northern Scotland known as Tap o’ Noth is crowned by an early Iron Age (800–400 B.C.) fort. Recent excavations show that from the third to sixth century A.D., the people known as the ...

According to a statement released by Penn State, American and Bolivian researchers discovered a previously unknown temple ...

NANCHANG, CHINA— Global Times reports that archaeologists investigating the tomb of Liu Hemarquis, the Marquis of Haihun, in east China's Jiangxi Province discovered the world’s oldest steel ...

Belarusian Telegraph Agency reports that a one-of-a-kind artifact was found during excavations near Moscow’s […] ...