The city of Parthenope was one of the earliest ancient Greek settlements on the coast of what is now Naples, Italy.
A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.
Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but a state-of-the-art museum to display them is still a long way ...
Archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls, which surrounded ...
Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists unique insights into ...
The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...
A lost Bronze Age metropolis has reappeared from beneath the soil of central Asia, its streets and fortifications resurfacing ...