New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

Among the recovered items were 15 ancient oil lamps, 17 figurines or fragments, several ceramic vessels, and a marble sculpture believed to depict a child’s head. All are thought to date from various ...

Imagine standing on a scorched landscape where the ground is cracked and shimmering, and the sky glows a deep, fiery orange.

“If we look specifically at head hair, we can see that it is styled,” Berman wrote. “The most famous Venus figurine, the ...

Archaeologists excavating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the ancient church in Jerusalem situated where Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, recently found evidence of ancient olive trees and ...

By extracting ancient DNA from 13,000-year-old and 72,000-year-old fossils and merging it with that of modern gray wolves, scientists have created animals that look and behave like their long ...

A limestone altar linked to the ancient Teotihuacan civilization stands at a recently excavated site in Tikal National Park, Guatemala. Credit: Lorena Paiz Aragón et al. / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 An ancient ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – An ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue that the New York District Attorney’s Office said was looted from a site in Turkey will be put on public display one final time at the ...

Ancient Greek Statue of Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Milos ... relief tiles adorned with mythological scenes, terracotta figurines, gold jewelry, ancient coins, and island seal stones—all of which he ...

But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New research is shedding light on the lives of these ancient humans. Around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens ...

Archaeologists have uncovered five ceramic figurines, believed to have been ... challenges compared to neighboring countries. Many ancient sites are concealed due to volcanic eruptions, and ...