Elderly and ailing, a potter named Georges-André Colas penned a six-page letter to the Regional Archaeological Service of Burgundy in October 2008. “Dear Sir or Madam, although I am aware of the ...

For the nearly two centuries since this Etruscan oil lamp was found near the city of Cortona, Italy, it has confounded scholars. It was unearthed in a ditch, so its original context is unknown. And ...

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 planet’s ...

Donor inscription, Galilee, Israel(Mordechai Aviam/Kinneret College on the Sea Galilee/Israel Science Foundation) Sausann mosaic, Galilee, Israel(Mordechai Aviam/Kinneret College on the Sea ...

An archaeologist investigates how construction of New York City’s largest reservoir a century ago uprooted thousands of rural residents The Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskill Mountains supplies New ...

A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...

Traces of the city’s earliest beginnings as an economic and trading powerhouse lie just beneath the streets of South Street Seaport Over the past 250 years, perhaps no stretch of land in America has ...

Top 10 Discoveries of 2024 January/February 2025 Grim Evidence from the Arctic King William Island, Canada ...

The image of a medieval knight moving slowly and stiffly under the tremendous weight of his costly armor as he readies for battle or a joust is firmly fixed in people’s imagination. But, according to ...

The world’s wild lion population is in grave danger. There are only 600 Asiatic lions remaining, all of which live in a wildlife reserve in the Gir Forest in northwest India. And just 23,000 African ...

ArtNet News reports that officials at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii have concluded that a looted fragment of a mural ...

According to a La Brujula Verde report, well-preserved dog remains and a polished bone dagger have been recovered from ...