Recent technological advancements have unveiled mysterious voids beneath the Sphinx, sparking debates among archaeologists and historians. These discoveries, made possible through advanced scanning ...

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 ...

Opium use may have been widespread in ancient Egyptian culture—including potentially among notable kings. Yale researchers found chemical traces of opiates in an ancient alabaster vase at the Peabody ...

In a Nov. 6 Facebook post, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said the ceramic situla, or vase, was found in the Thermopolium in Regio V, an ancient snack bar. “The glazed vessel, usually found in the ...

Archaeologists say they have discovered the ruins of what they believe are the boundaries of an ancient temple belonging to the mysterious Andean society of Tiwanaku that disappeared around AD 1000.

Ancient Romans had a big appetite for a certain kind of fish sauce – and a new study is revealing exactly what went into it. Researcher Gonçalo Themudo published his findings in the journal Antiquity ...