In 1954, archaeologists in India discovered the ancient lost city of Lothal. What was life like in this city, and what ...

The "Ringed Lady" of Herculaneum is one of the most important discoveries from the ancient city that was buried by the ...

On a rocky island off the coast of Norway, metal detectorists stumbled on some ancient jewelry and led archaeologists to a forgotten Viking burial ground. The “small treasure trove” included a rare ...

Ancient DNA can reveal such details as the ancestry, sex and age of a long-dead person. But the biological material degrades over time, and in Pompeii, the DNA could have been further damaged by ...

An ancient Iranian god of the sun, originally called Mithra, Mithras was absorbed into Greco-Roman belief as the central figure for a mysterious cult that worshipped him between the 1st and 4th ...

And perhaps none of the other narratives meant to illuminate who perished together in the ancient eruption of Mount ... When the residents of Pompeii died in a shower of hot ash and rocks erupting ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...

Photo from the Penn Museum Ancient invaders tore through a massive ... ivory carvings and jewelry. “The condition and distribution of artifacts strongly suggest that the shrines and associated ...

Stonehenge may have been built to unify people in ancient Britain, according to new research. It comes after evidence shows one of the stones came to the monument in Wiltshire from as far away as ...

Paul McNally has been around consoles and computers since his parents bought him a Mattel Intellivision in 1980. He has been a prominent games journalist… We uphold a strict editorial policy ...

Mr. Morris’s Artwear store, known for its museum-like approach to displaying statement jewelry, became a destination in SoHo well before the Manhattan neighborhood turned into an open-air mall.