Norway's melting glaciers are revealing objects from the Stone Age, the Iron Age, and the medieval era. Some ancient artifacts are mysteries, but they still indicate trade routes through the mountains ...

Children in Ancient Greece played with figurines that, much like modern Barbies, reflected the society and aspirations of ...

Archaeologists working at Gela in southern Sicily have recovered a remarkably delicate, 5th-century BC bone stylus that blends the everyday with the provocative: a carved head - likely Dionysus - and, ...

Hikers and mountaineers are finding ancient human artifacts in the melting glaciers of the Alps. Some discoveries are valuable snapshots of ancient economies, while others are total mysteries. Glacial ...

It may be an archaeologist’s job to unearth astounding discoveries, but every year some people just have an extraordinarily lucky — or strange — day. That was no different in 2024, with a construction ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren’t formed by collapsing stars. Instead, they emerged when extremely dense ...

A stunning hoard of destroyed – yet still insightful – two-millennia-old artifacts were recently brought to light by archaeologists in the United Kingdom. The discovery was announced by Durham ...

Two of the items were given to the Egyptian embassy in Washington by an unnamed American citizen who felt they should be ...

An unassuming grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far earlier chapter than ...

An ancient artifact could be right in your own backyard. This was the case for a mom who was gardening with her baby in the town of Józefów in Poland. While gardening in May, they came across a ...