For decades, a sealed basement room sat untouched beneath an unremarkable building, its existence known to only a few and its contents to no one. When it was finally opened, investigators stepped into ...
New research suggests a hidden body of pressurized freshwater may lie beneath the Great Salt Lake’s playa, trapped below a ...
Ancient Greek astronomers made important observations regarding the night sky long before the first ...
Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe ...
The Gosfield seal is made of a medieval silver seal bezel surrounding an ancient Roman gemstone.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Amid the constant blare of car horns in southern Mexico City, it's hard to imagine that Cuicuilco was once the heart of a thriving ancient civilization. Yet atop its circular ...
Scientists have uncovered what is believed to be a vast, hidden freshwater aquifer stretching along the US East Coast, from New Jersey to Maine, located deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. This ...
This week, we revisit Egypt's sacred, mystical wilderness, not the desert caves where early Christian mystics meditated, but instead the birthplace of the philosophy and magic systems that inspired ...
The lives and craft of ancient Egyptian artisans are the subject of a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Sketch showing a stonemason at work, holding a chisel ...
Archaeologists are doing excavation work along the A66 ahead of plans to widen the road.