The ancient silver coins feature the images of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius.

Among the recovered items were 15 ancient oil lamps, 17 figurines or fragments, several ceramic vessels, and a marble ...

Poor spacing between gear teeth could cause blockages, rendering the mechanism unfit for scientific use, simulations indicate ...

Ancient historians recorded legends about the invention of the first coins, and archaeologists have found some surprising ...

Ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging from measuring length, distance, volume, and weight of ...

Archaeologists often spend long amounts of time at a dig site, only to dig up garbage such as bottle caps and soda cans, or even nothing at all. If these researchers manage to dis ...

This ancient seaside town is often likened to Greece for its Mediterranean-like views and Greek-influenced fare, but its ...

Thousands of locals and tourists gathered on Saturday on the Greek island of Corfu to watch the spectacular tradition called ...

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

Nick Angeloff, an archaeologist at Cal Poly Humboldt, has called the developments at Gradishte a once-in-a-lifetime discovery ...

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 ancient past have been recovered and are on show for the world to see once ...