Phys.org reports that a wooden shipwreck discovered in Iran on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea has been studied by a ...

The Guardian reports that a sword dated to the sixth century has been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in southeastern ...

Constructed in 1723, Old North Church is the oldest surviving church building in Boston. Painted by a member of the ...

An underwater archaeologist documents a 2,500-year-old shipwreck discovered off the southern tip of Sicily. An iron anchor ...

A rugged volcanic landscape was once the site of a dramatic standoff between the Modoc tribe and the U.S. Army In 1872, some 150 members of the Modoc tribe took refuge in arid and unforgiving ...

Archaeologists excavating on the banks of the Nile have uncovered a necropolis where hundreds of small pyramids once stood Since a French explorer first described the cemetery at Meroe in the ...

ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration ...

It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian ...

The White Shaman rock shelter in southwest Texas is the site of a prehistoric mural, some 13 feet tall and 26 feet wide. The painting is still visible in the protected, concave area beneath the ...

Thingvellir is easily accessible via main roads from Reykjavik. Begin your tour at the visitor’s center, which provides an overview of activities available at the park, and features a new ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...