Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—According to a statement released by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yosef Garfinkel and Sarah Krulwich analyzed vegetal motifs on pottery made by the Halafian culture of ...

New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...

Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...

Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...

ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have ...

TEMPE, ARIZONA—According to a statement released by Arizona State University, a second hominin lived in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift with Australopithecus afarensis some 3.4 million years ago.

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...

By looking at mother-infant experiences together, we can observe the long-lasting impact urbanization has on the health of ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—According to a statement released by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the United States has recently repatriated a group of 43 artifacts to Turkey. The objects include a ...