Glasgow Times reports that volunteers from Clutha Archaeology Group, in collaboration with Archaeology Scotland […] ...

Ahram Online reports that a tomb dated to the Middle Kingdom period has been discovered in the Asasif necropolis at Thebes, which is located on the western bank of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. The 4 ...

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA—The Associated Press reports that sandstone sculptures depicting door guardians have been unearthed near the north gate of the Royal Palace at Angkor Thom, the last capital ...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—NBC News reports that forensic artist Oscar Nilsson has reconstructed the face of Zosia, a woman who was buried with the blade of a sickle across her neck some 400 years ago.

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Edo people of the Kingdom of Benin, which controlled territory on the west coast of Africa that is now part of Nigeria, produced thousands of ...

Ruins of Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan in Mexico City. Clockwise from top left: ear flare, Tlaloc mask (2), lightning bolt scepter(Mirsa Islas Orozco/Courtesy of ...

A small crack in a vaulted ceiling led archaeologists to a new room of the Domus Aurea, or “Golden House,” the immense pleasure palace built by the emperor Nero after a fire devastated Rome in ...

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A detail from a Late Classic vase from the Peten region depicts a Maya queen (above right) with red lines painted below her eyes and a female attendant (above left) with a light patch around her ...