The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is showcasing 600 recovered objects, which date to between the Archaic period and the Middle Ages ...

Judas Iscariot's death is told in two conflicting Bible accounts—one of remorse and hanging, the other of a gruesome fall in a cursed field.

Judas Iscariot received 30 silver coins to betray Jesus and put him in the hands of Caiaphas, or in today's money, around ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

On a riverside in eastern Austria sat a mysterious set of ruins. Some believed it to be an abandoned, run-down castle. Others ...

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

The allegations are laid out in a papyrus that was discovered decades ago in the Judean desert but only recently analyzed.

The new settlement has been found at Kom el-Nugus in northern Egypt, about 27 miles (43 km) west of Alexandria.

Gold is prized for its beauty and rarity but it is also indestructible, the same piece changing forms through history and ...

Once looted from tombs, hidden in homes, and trafficked across borders, the precious artefacts that were stolen from Italy’s ...