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Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved pieces of the ship.
Newfound rock art from ancient Egypt may shed light on the time just before the first dynasty.
Steve McBride collects ancient Greek and Roman coins from his homestead in Mobile, N.L. He says it can connect people today with those who lived thousands of years ago.
The bronze statue, smuggled from the ancient city of Boubon -- now the province of Burdur in southwest Turkey -- in the 1960s, was returned to Turkey after 65 years, according to Turkish officials.
For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they evolved to the seductive mermaids of our modern imagination.
A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.
Pakistan, July 21 -- An ancient bronze statue believed to represent Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius has been returned to Turkiye from the United States, 65 years after it was smuggled out of the ...
Giant ancient rock art reveals secrets of first Amazonian people, from mythology to diet - Rock art is earliest evidence of humans in western Amazonia, scientists say ...
Her latest piece of fiction is a departure for her. “Ecstasy” is a work of horror-she based it on an ancient Greek play, “The Bacchae” by Euripides.
Over 200 historians and artists including William Dalrymple, Paloma Faith and Juliet Stevenson have denounced the British Museum’s decision to host an event for the Israeli embassy in May, and ...
The road to the main viewing area for Murujuga's 50,000-year-old art is past Woodside's giant gas mining and export hub.
Police say they're looking for four people caught on camera stealing a Ronald McDonald statue from a McDonald's in Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania.