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 ...

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 ...

McMaster University Libraries is partnering with the McMaster Museum of Art to host an exhibition that will feature rare ...

The discovery has been described as a “geometric miracle” and could finally lead to some answers about one of Ancient Egypt’s ...

The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.

In the late 18th and early 19th century, Westerners were involved in extensive looting of Greek antiquities as the nation was ...

Buried beneath a quiet Italian town, a 2,000-year-old necropolis has revealed the rare tomb of a Roman gladiator.

A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle ... He also said that the Grecian pottery may be proof of Greek mercenaries in the Egyptian army, which was ...