A team of researchers from the University of Alicante and the University of Zaragoza uncovered around fifteen Roman ...

From stunning artwork to evidence of elaborate prehistoric butchering, Live Science takes a look at seven amazing caves that ...

On the walls were innumerable paintings, many of them of large size, which were soon recognized as being palæolithic. Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies ...

Athens was the cultural and intellectual center of ancient Greece, known for the first democracy, the great philosophers Socrates and Plato, the Parthenon and the monumental Phidias sculptures on the ...

Turning serving trays decorated by anonymous, long-lost artisans into blue chip art, Cave underlines the arbitrary way we assign value to artifacts; including his own face reminds us that those ...

Many mummies from ancient Egypt also have tattoos, as do remains from cultures around the world.

A team of archaeologists has discovered an ancient labyrinthine system of tunnels hidden beneath the Peruvian city of Cusco, a former Inca stronghold nestled in the Andes mountains. The tunnel ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made ... “Those who perpetrated this lack of respect towards the ancient inhabitants of the desert are to be punished with the full ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...