A metal detectorist uncovered the hoard of 1,368 ancient coins, mostly silver denarii from the Roman era, in a pot in Worcestershire. The oldest coin in the treasure dates from 157 BCE, and the only ...

Red envelopes are a cherished cultural tradition in China and many other parts of Asia. Here’s where they come from – and ...

DENVER ( KDVR) — The best museum in Colorado is right in the heart of Denver, according to a popular travel magazine. Denver’s many museums and attractions have helped the Mile High City earn ...

On a wet October day, former policeman Gert-Jan Messelaar and Reinier Koelink, ventured into a field in Bunnik where they ...

Archaeologists have found a 13-cm-long iron knife broken in three parts in the ongoing excavation site in Marungur in present ...

The artifact emerged from the ruins of an ancient Roman building-turned-workshop in Sicily from the second or first century ...

A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the ...

Archaeologists working on the site of an old convent’s garden in Dijon, France, have discovered a strange group of Gallic graves and a children’s necropolis dating back over 2,000 years.

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.