An unusual email arrived in the inbox of a faculty member at the department of archaeology at Simon Fraser University in the spring of 2024.

Archaeologists uncover a 2,500-year-old Iron Age site in Afghanistan, revealing stone structures, a drikning vessel and early ...

Part station, part museum, two new subway stops in Rome offer riders the chance to see ancient artifacts unearthed in digging ...

When a relative died, I was given an extraordinary artifact—and a head-spinning journey down a 25-year ethical rabbit hole.

A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being ...

A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall.

The ruins of Augusta Raurica near Basel, Switzerland are home to the best-preserved Roman theater north of the Alps.

Christos Tsirogiannis has spent almost two decades trawling through inventories of museums, auction houses and other collections for illegally trafficked antiquities.

A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being ...

Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of the pharaoh — including during the time of King ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...