Haut-relief sculptures on the sarcophagus show a wine-drinking contest between Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, and the legendary Roman hero, Hercules.

In the center of the relief stands Ashurbanipal, the last king of the Assyrian Empire, who ruled from 669 to 631 B.C. He is flanked by the ancient Mesopotamian gods Ashur and Ishtar, and they are ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ruler of the Assyrian Empire flanked by important gods. The slab was ...

A stone with a penis and explicit insult carved into it was recently unearthed at the ruins of a Roman fort in the U.K. (Image credit: The Vindolanda Trust) Archaeologists in the U.K. recently had ...

The stone carving was located less than a mile from a historic Buddhist temple, officials said, a building that was allowed to be inside the bounds of the park for religious practices, monasteries ...

The stone is fairly small, measuring 40 cm wide by 15 cm tall (15 inches by 6 inches). Experts in Roman epigraphy recognized the lettering as a mangled version of Secundinus cacator, which ...

Newly-discovered stone tools estimated to be 700,000 years old push the Greek archaeological record back by up to 250,000 years.