In 1980, Kevin Thatcher sat down in his Los Gatos bedroom and sketched out the design that would follow him for the rest of ...

In 1980, Kevin Thatcher sat down in his Los Gatos bedroom and sketched out the design that would follow him for the rest of ...

A conical stone tomb built by the people of the Early Bronze Age Umm an-Nar culture (ca. 2700–2000 b.c.) at the site of Shir in Oman overlooks a desert landscape. Today, water flows through a canal ...

An array of luxurious artifacts was discovered in the tomb of Feng Sufu, a Northern Yan Dynasty (a.d. 407–436) general, near the city of Beipiao in northeastern China. These include (clockwise from ...

The previously unknown settlement appears to have been abandoned at some point in the 1300s, but researchers don't know why ...

My quest for the ark of the covenant was abruptly disrupted at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean. Three hours into our ...

Catherine Almonte Da Costa was part of a photo shoot on the mayor-elect’s inner circle. The next day she resigned amid an ...

These thirty remarkable discoveries from 2024-2025 represent only a fraction of the archaeological treasures emerging from soil, sand, and sea around the world. Each find adds another piece to the ...

Sandro Botticelli, "The Mystical Nativity" (1500), oil on canvas, held at the National Gallery, London (photo via Wikimedia Commons) The Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola had been martyred less than ...

New research challenges long-held assumptions about miniature Viking-Age figurines, revealing they were dynamic participants in Norse society rather than mere symbolic amulets. A groundbreaking study ...