Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Pompeii unveiled their latest find Thursday: a formal dining room that offers a…
Browsing: Ancient
When wandering bands of hunter-gatherers domesticated the scavenging wolves at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, they set the stage…
Students from Colby College helped harvest ice from a lake for a new mikvah, or ritual bath, at a synagogue…
The most valuable pigment of antiquity was processed not from a root ball or from the frothy extract of a…
They appeared around Halloween, as a fierce storm hit Northern Ireland’s wetlands and loosened its soil: human bones, sticking out…
Scientists have diagnosed Down syndrome from DNA in the ancient bones of seven babies, one up to 5,500 years old.…
It may not be authentic, accurate or very old.But the colossal statue of a fourth-century emperor, Constantine the Great, is…
About 375 million years ago, armored fish ruled an aquatic world. Known as placoderms, these primitive jawed vertebrates came in…
Nine months after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a country club must sell its lease to the state historical…