According to a CNN report, the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah has been discovered in Iraq using historical accounts and ...

MAGELANG, INDONESIA—Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and their colleagues developed a neural ...

DURHAM, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by Durham University, 15,800-year-old engravings depicting fish caught in traps or nets have been identified among the more than 400 engraved ...

LUXOR, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a tomb dated to the Middle Kingdom period has been discovered in the Asasif necropolis at Thebes, which is located on the western bank of the Nile River in ...

CAMBODIA: Workers searching through a pile of debris for fallen roof stones from the Ta Nei Temple in Angkor unexpectedly unearthed the head of an ancient bodhisattva statue. The sculpture, which ...

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet ...

Rarely has a single find changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past as radically as the discovery of the world’s earliest known wooden architecture, which dates to ...

Plum Bayou Mounds, Arkansas(Will Newton/Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism) A dozen miles southeast of Little Rock, two large mounds rise from the flat Arkansas River floodplain.

One of the two volcanoes that formed Ometepe Island looms over Nicaragua’s Lake Cocibolca—also known as Lake Nicaragua. The island was at the center of a cultural region known to scholars as ...

5th Dynasty Egyptian Tomb(Courtesy Mohamed Megahed) Tomb painting detail(Courtesy Mohamed Megahed) During investigation of the funerary complex of the 5th Dynasty ...

Lapis lazuli (left) and scribe’s teeth (right)(Courtesy Christina Warinner) Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century author Ultramarine, a brilliant blue pigment, was so dearly coveted in ...