Ancient Roman mosaics featuring dolphins and wine vessels uncovered in Thalheim, Austria, reveal stunning details of ancient ...

Archaeologists in Austria recently unearthed a trio of Roman era mosaics, which shed light onto life in ancient times. The works were found among the ruins of a Roman building complex in Thalheim bei ...

As many of you know, this year Turkish authorities have given the collective name Tas Tepeler aka Stone Hills to 12 prominent ...

The stone itself is made of limestone, a material commonly used in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. Though other menorah carvings have ... that mirrors ancient textual descriptions.

The nearly 2,000-year-old example of Roman engineering is covered in penile carvings, thanks to the ancient citizens and ... the rubble fill or core of a stone wall. Quite (possibly) dropped ...

Later, that first layer of ornamental carvings was removed and replaced by a second, deeper motif filled with diagonal lines. The triangular shapes and patterns ... and stone ax blades. A Roman ...

At the beginning of the 13th century, infamous leader Genghis Khan united the Mongols under a common goal — invading the Chinese empire. The land fell to the Mongols in an era that would later be ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood ... many sculptures were covered in bright paints and patterns. Some were adorned with jewelry.

The volcanic slab, inscribed with Ancient Greek, may rewrite what we know about the Roman Empire’s reach — and the towns it controlled. Scientists say that the basalt stone, unearthed in Upper ...

This stone, originally used to demarcate land boundaries as part of Roman Emperor Diocletian’s tax reforms, sheds light on ancient land ownership, local settlement patterns, and the administrative ...

The stone carvings were called herms—a shortened version of Hermes’s name. They were unique to the Greeks and showed a larger-than-life phallus. They were found everywhere. Twenty-five hundred years ...