Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone tablet more than three years after discovering it near Lake Bashplemi in Georgia. According to their recent study published in the Journal of Ancient ...

Researchers believe they’ve discovered that the fish-shaped stones lodged in high-altitude areas were connected to a large ...

Among the most sought-after of these religious antiquities is the famed Ark of the Covenant. This legendary artifact is the ...

What happened to the enigmatic Therapeutae, and what was their place in ancient history? The Therapeutae were primarily located near Lake Mareotis, close to Alexandria in Egypt. This city was a ...

SANTA CRUZ — While a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz history professor Elaine Sullivan unearthed ancient artifacts in Syria marked with an alphabetic script whose meaning ...

Egyptian authorities are urgently investigating the disappearance of a 3,000-year-old bracelet, believed to have belonged to Pharaoh Amenemope, from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The artifact vanished ...

The royal harem conspiracy was a real-life Game of Thrones—pitting two sons of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III against one another in a bid for power. Ramesses III was ancient Egypt's last great pharaoh ...

The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...

Professor Suzannah Lipscomb deep dives into some of the greatest death mysteries of the ancient world, as she turns forensic detective and re-examines the final moments of four of ancient history's ...

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan. This long-sought discovery resolves a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Experts are still puzzling over a basalt stone tablet more than ...

The mystery of 6,000-year-old "dragon stones" placed at high altitudes has been solved as archaeologists have connected them with an "ancient water cult". The prehistoric monuments in the ancient ...