The systematic excavation of ancient Tenea, which concluded in October 2025, has yielded remarkable finds that illuminate the ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

Clay Holmes knows what it’s like to get roughed up as a closer in The Bronx and understands the feeling of getting booed at Yankee Stadium after blowing a lead late in a game. Access the Mets beat ...

When the Amarna Letters were first discovered in Egypt, many scholars thought they were fake. They were not written on papyrus, but clay tablets—a material that wasn’t used in the region. Nor were ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Former Louisiana Speaker of the House Clay Schexnayder is now facing criminal charges — and it's all because of an old piece of wood. Schexnayder was indicted Wednesday in Baton Rouge on charges of ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...

The 60th edition of the Head of the Charles Regatta was held on the Charles River this past weekend, and thousands of rowers and spectators were greeted by pleasant fall weather. Globe photographers ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. With both parties agreeing to terms, the first stages of a peace plan in Gaza are in motion. US President Donald Trump is credited ...

A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet with Latin characters that included the phrase “spirits of the ...