ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT—Built in the third century b.c., the Lighthouse of Alexandria was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Reaching a height of 330 feet, it was one of the world’s tallest ...
WARNEMÜNDE, GERMANY— The Guardian reports that a section of wall stretching for nearly one-half mile was found in the Bay of Mecklenburg, off the coast of Germany, during a survey conducted with a ...
Homo erectus is thought to have migrated out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago. Did other species migrate out of Africa as well at this time? The Dmanisi skulls differ from Homo erectus, do not all ...
NEW YORK, NEW YORK—According to a statement released by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the United States has recently repatriated a group of 43 artifacts to Turkey. The objects include a ...
AMPHIPOLIS, GREECE—According to the Greek Reporter, a team of archaeologists from the University of Patras and the Ephorate of Antiquities at Serres uncovered an enigmatic cultic building at the site ...
Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when ...
New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...
A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.
ArtNet News reports that excavators working in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis, three miles west of Pompeii, have ...
Sometimes it takes a village to raise a window. Between 2015 and 2017, skilled masons meticulously carved and beveled arches and four-lobed flourishes for a Gothic-style stone window frame in Guédelon ...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Oxford University analyzed sediments from third-century a.d. […] ...
CAIRO, EGYPT— Ahram Online reports that more than half of the sun temple of the pharaoh Niuserre, who ruled from about 2420 to 2389 B.C. during the 5th Dynasty, has been uncovered in the Abusir ...
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