The ancient Romans venerated wine. Despite its centrality to the everyday life of the Romans, the ancient sources continuously attest it was a problematic drink when consumed by women.
Archaeologists have discovered a large complex of stone walls from the early Roman Empire in the Äbnetwald gravel quarry in central Switzerland.
Archaeologists excavating an early Medieval cemetery in Ingelheim, Germany, have unearthed the intact grave of Frankish warrior from the 7th century.
The U.S. Military Academy will open and unveil the contents of a nearly 200-year-old time capsule during a ceremony on August 28 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (UTC -4)....
“In an era where the term “burka” evokes images of oppressive regimes, notably Afghanistan's coercive imposition on women, it may come as a surprise that the tapada limeña (meaning “the covered one from Lima”) was used as a cloak of female resistance to authority by the women of Lima for over three hundred years…....
Archaeologists have unearthed a Neolithic dragon figure made of mussel shells at the Caitaopo Site in Chifeng, in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Archaeologists have discovered a rare"polishing boulder" in the Valley of the Stones near Dorchester, UK. The stone was used to make stone axe heads more than 5,000 years ago. Scientists say the discovery was unexpected.
A new study reports the discovery of hundreds of mummified bees inside their cocoons. These cocoons, produced almost 3,000 years ago, were discovered in a new paleontological site discovered on the coast of Odemira, in Portugal.
Archaeologists uncovered a rare structure and exquisitely preserved vaulted passageway from about 3,800 years ago in the Jezreel Valley, also known as the Valley of Megiddo. The purpose of the massive building that houses it remains a mystery for now.
Silla was one of the three kingdoms of Korea and the most successful one. After the conquests the most important period in the country's history was the United Silla.
Rare artifacts from Greece’s Archaic Period have been discovered at the ancient sanctuary of Poseidon in Eliki, southern Greece.
A group of five rare gold coins from the 3rd century B.C. have been discovered during excavation at the Tophet cemetery and temple in the suburbs of Carthage in Tunisia.
Though over 500 years have passed since the reign of Vlad the Impaler, some artifacts have remained, including several letters he penned at different points throughout his life.
A brief history of one of the most fascinating cities in the United States, Gary, Indiana.
The remains of one of the world’s oldest known synagogues have been unearthed in the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria near Kuban on the Black Sea coast of southern Russia.
The finding marks the discovery of one of the world’s oldest synagogues.
Groundbreaking and extensive evidence shows that iron technology was integrated and advanced in hunter-gatherer societies in Northern Fennoscandia during the pre-Roman Iron Age (c. 200–50 BC). Smelting processes at high temperatures had been mastered, including using extreme temperatures in the furnaces.
A system of ancient ceramic water pipes, the oldest ever unearthed in China, shows that neolithic people were capable of complex engineering feats without the need for a centralized state authority, finds a new study.
A new mapping project by Natural England will help unearth the deep history and mystery of this ancient network of subterranean tracks.
Underwater archaeologists report they have discovered the remains of an ancient sunken ship and hundreds of jars at a site in the Mediterranean Sea, roughly 650 meters from the beach of el-Alamein, Egypt.
An ancient clay tablet with cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language in the nearly 4,000-year-old Accana tumulus has been found in the southern Hatay province, Turkey.
The ongoing excavation of the Roman House of the Amphitheater in Mérida, Spain, has made another extraordinary discovery.
The remains of a young child buried face down with a triangular padlock under the left foot have been discovered in the same cemetery in Pień, northern Poland,