An independent researcher claimed on Wednesday that a marble bust of Christ in a Roman church is by Michelangelo, the latest ...

Along the west bank of the Nile near Aswan, Egypt, a series of rock-cut tombs have been holding centuries of history and artifacts. A renewed excavation at the Oubbet el-Hawa site has uncovered some ...

In Africa, colonialism has mostly been studied as something imposed from outside, for example from Europe in the 19th and ...

Archaeologists at Panama's El Caño Archaeological Park recently excavated Tomb 3, which holds the remains of an elite ...

The Lady of Elche bust, a 2,400-year-old artifact from Spain, continues to intrigue historians and archaeologists.

The third edition of the Diriyah Biennale, In Interludes and Transitions, strikes a reassuringly familiar note ...

A newly analyzed Greek inscription indicates that the Great Mosque of Homs likely stands on the site of the Roman Temple of the Sun, revealing a layered history of pagan, Christian, and Islamic ...

But then the archaeologists took a closer look at the amulet from grave 134. The inch-long silver charm held a fragile, broken piece of foil that seemed to have writing on it. The amulet, it turned ...

A brightly painted cache of 22 wooden coffins, many marked with the title “Singer/Chantress of Amun”, has been uncovered on Luxor’s West Bank, alongside eight rare papyri sealed inside a large ceramic ...

A Spanish governor’s residence in Guam highlights the role of CHamoru people in sustaining colonial administration.

The city’s soil is filled with historic treasures. But amateur diggers and professional archaeologists disagree about who ...