The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

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The exposition objects were growing in number thus pushing for a museum to demonstrate the amazing finds related to Yakutia's ...

Why the Inuit survived while the Norse did not has baffled archaeologists for decades. One idea was that the Norse did not eat more seafood (as the Inuit did) when farming conditions deteriorated.

Now, archaeologists working on excavating the castle have discovered defensive stakes known as an “abatis” in the castle’s moat, according to a Feb. 28 news release from Wessex Archaeology ...

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An excavation led by archaeologist Zhang Su of the Shandong ... When not writing, she can be found drawing, playing the piano or shapeshifting.

Archaeologists also found 628 ostraca, which were broken pieces of pottery and stone that were used to write and draw. The ostraca were written in hieroglyphic scripts, along with Egyptian demotic ...