The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

Known as the 'Naupa Huaca portal', this mysterious stone sanctuary challenges everything we know about ancient engineering. Carved with impossible precision into solid rock, the site features a ...

A recent discovery in central Spain has provided archaeologists with a fascinating glimpse into the lives and travels of Roman soldiers. A 1,900-year-old bronze vessel, known as the Berlanga Cup, was ...

The word "paganism" has come to refer to various pre-Christian religions belonging to a number of ancient cultures—those from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Scandinavia, and so on. It has come to also represent ...

A recent study has revealed that Neolithic builders at the Motza site near Jerusalem mastered a highly complex plaster production technique nearly 8,000 years before the Romans. The discovery of ...

In the dark waters of a remote Scottish loch, archaeologists have made a discovery that reshapes our understanding of prehistoric engineering. Using innovative shallow-water photogrammetry, ...

The find provides remarkable new insights into the urban evolution of the city right after its establishment by Alexander the Great in 331 BC. Among the most notable structures uncovered is a circular ...

What happens when the world's most prophetically significant river disappears? According to ancient scripture, the answer is terrifying. The Euphrates River is dying. The river that once carved the ...

Archaeologists in Poland have excavated what is being called a “mass-suspected vampire grave.” With their decapitated skulls lodged between their legs, and coins in their mouths, every effort was ...

Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo /The Conversation Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from ...

Two exceptionally rare Anglo-Saxon "Lamb of God" coins, minted over 1,000 years ago in a desperate bid to seek divine protection against Viking attacks, have been discovered in Denmark. The silver ...

A small fragment of a Roman figurine, believed to depict the "backside" of the goddess Venus, has been discovered during ongoing excavations at Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. This intriguing discovery, ...