In collaboration with the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Crete, the Palace Museum is presenting the exhibition Daedalus: ...

A London gallery has withdrawn an ancient Greek amphora from sale after an expert linked it to convicted antiquities trafficker.

Two metal detectorists in Romania uncovered a trove of centuries-old silver jewelry, providing evidence of an ancient settlement in the region.

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...

The perennial popularity of botanical art ...

At the beginning of the 13th century, infamous leader Genghis Khan united the Mongols under a common goal — invading the Chinese empire. The land fell to the Mongols in an era that would later be ...

The work is about questioning how we locate ourselves in time, in history and in the cosmos—an invitation to reimagine our place within these larger systems of knowledge and ...

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...