Langley, MC, Škrdla, P., Kmošek, M. et al. Engraved Limestone Block from Švédův stůl Cave, Czech Republic. J Paleo Arch 9, 4 ...

Reuters reports that Louis Autin and Eloïse Letellier-Taillefer of Sorbonne University and Marie-Adeline Le […] ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found during excavations in Ichijodani, one of medieval Japan’s largest cities. On the outskirts of Fukui, a city of a quarter of a million people in ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

The gypsum dunes of White Sands National Park in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin are adjacent to the site of a dry ancient lakebed where scientists have discovered human and animal trackways dating to ...

Excavations in Tajikistan have unveiled a city of merchant princes that flourished from the fifth to the eighth century a.d. An 8th-century A.D. mural unearthed at the city of Panjakent in modern-day ...

The beliefs of women and children who lived in the classical world can be difficult to access. Much of the work women traditionally did left relatively little evidence behind—loom weights and cooking ...

When it was built nearly 5,000 years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure in the world, a title it would retain for more than 3,500 years, until it was surpassed by several of ...

This section of the whaleship Industry’s logbook features a whale stamp, indicating that the crew caught a sperm whale. In this case, the whale yielded 68 barrels of oil.(Courtesy the New Bedford ...