According to a statement released by the University of Sydney, seabird guano may have been a major factor in the rise of Peru’s precolonial Chincha Kingdom, a powerful coastal polity that reached an ...

Ancient written sources record that when Alexander the Great returned to Mesopotamia from the Indus Valley around 324 b.c., he founded a strategic new port in the region, known as Alexandria on the ...

A beautifully crafted sword was among the many extraordinary burial objects—including knives, spears, brooches, […] ...

Two monumental pylons form the entryway to the temple of Isis at Philae, which was built by the pharaoh Ptolemy II beginning around 260 B.C. Reliefs on this pylon depict the pharaoh Ptolemy XII ...

These figures stood in stark contrast to those the visitors had seen in the exquisite painting of a Dionysian initiation at a recent party in an opulent seaside villa. Holding a wine glass in one hand ...

Inca polities on Peru’s south coast,” says Bongers. “They were particularly famous for their mercantile activity.” The Band ...

Around 4,600 years ago, a Neolithic Chinese civilization known as the Shijiahe culture flourished in the Middle Yangtze ...

TORRE DEL GRECO, ITALY—Archaeologists from the Herculaneum Archaeological Park have completed new investigations at the ancient Villa Sora on the Bay of Naples more than 30 years after the last ...

A team of archaeologists and speleologists have identified underground aqueduct tunnels and natural springs that supplied ...

According to a report in Haaretz, archaeologists have discovered two small pieces of hide connected by a cord in Cougar ...

Excavated erdstall passage, Reinstedt, Germany Medieval horseshoe and ceramic fragments. REINSTEDT, GERMANY—According to a La ...