LiDAR and artificial intelligence are just some of the technological advances that make discovery faster and easier.

What the words of ancient rabbis could and couldn’t teach me.

Climate change and urbanization are threatening ancient sites around the world. As archaeologists fight back, satellites are ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Douglas J. Penick’s English ‘The Oceans of Cruelty’ is an English-language retelling of a collection of Sanskrit stories that date back thousands of years.

for the first time, a new section of its original hieroglyphic inscriptions and coloured scenes, shedding new light on the religious practices of ancient Egyptian priests during the Ptolemaic period.

Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the Spartans. Falling prey to ...

Actor Damian Lewis drove a flock of sheep across the River Thames on Sunday in homage to a centuries-old tradition. Lewis is among thousands of people granted the honorary title of ...

Scientists have successfully grown a tree from a 1,000-year-old seed with some speculating that this could be the long lost ...

One of the most startling discoveries was a 72-foot-long orca brandishing a knife. “On some pottery from the Nazca period, ...

This ancient seed, found between the West Bank and Israel, dates back to a time between 993 AD and 1202 and is believed to be part of a now-extinct lineage of trees mentioned in the Bible.

Zahi Hawass describes some of the major pyramids surviving from the ancient Egyptian Fifth Dynasty and the principles of their construction ...