Archaeologists working ahead of a parking lot in the Sardinian village of Loculi have exposed a 700-square-metre site with remains from the Bronze Age to post-medieval times. Among them is a fragment ...

To measure a horse painted 37,000 years ago, you would normally walk up to the wall. At Chauvet that is impossible. The cave floor still holds footprints tens of thousands of years old, and nobody is ...

Some 3,500 years ago, someone climbed a hill on Naxos carrying a handful of pebbles from the beach and left them on the floor ...

In 1806, the British traveler William Martin Leake was exploring Arcadia, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece, convinced he had found the ruins of the ancient city of Thyrea. He was mistaken. But ...

Under the soil and corrosion that coat some of China's most spectacular bronze masks, scraps of cloth have survived for ...