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 ...
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 ...
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 […] ...
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.
A mural in the home of Lucas Asicona in the small Guatemalan city of Chajul depicts a dwarf carrying a long stick, two musicians, and a dancer wearing a mix of Spanish and Maya attire. Part of the ...
A sculpture known as the Hell Mouth is one of several dozen fantastical creations dating to the sixteenth century that line the paths of a park called the Sacro Bosco, or Sacred Wood, near the central ...
According to a Herald Wales report, a Roman villa complex was found in southwestern Wales during a survey with ...
In 1863, as part of an all-out race by European museum directors to acquire the most spectacular remnants of the classical world, the British Museum began to sponsor excavations in Ephesus. The museum ...
A 1904 photograph shows the excavation of a Viking ship burial in Oseberg, Norway. The 71-foot-long vessel dating to A.D. 834 contained the remains of two women and an abundance of extraordinary grave ...
Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognized that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first spoke this ancient ...
According to an IFL Science report, a medieval shipwreck has been discovered in the strait between Denmark and Sweden by a ...
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