A short clip of Odysseus bowing to Agamemnon in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has fans asking why one king would bow to ...

A new synthesis in the journal Germania links stone double axes, rough "coarse ware" pottery and collective graves from ...

A Tel Aviv University team argues that colorful pebbles, fossil-bearing handaxes and recycled old flints from sites in Israel ...

A becalmed ship, a voice from a small Greek island calling the pilot by name, and a message about the death of a god. In ...

Conservation work at Kabul's battered Bala Hissar fortress has uncovered the remains of a Buddhist monastery, a Mughal palace ...

Giant underwater steps off the island of Yonaguni in southern Japan are often described online as the ruins of a city built before the end of the last Ice Age. The geologist who made that case still ...

Doors are an integral part of a building, and have been made commonly of wood or metal in the past. As an organic material, wood is highly susceptible to deterioration. Nevertheless, in some instances ...

Dated seeds and chemical signals in hair suggest intoxicating cannabis use at a Scythian princely tomb in southern Siberia.

A written account of Jesus rising from the dead was identified in a 2,000-year-old manuscript: Unverified Josephus wrote in ...

Sui coins and celadon from a hillside garrison in Changping have led the Beijing Institute of Archaeology to redate part of ...

Excavations at Las Minillas in Badajoz have dated a Late Bronze Age copper mine to about 1350 to 750 BC. Its ore, slag and ...