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

A new exhibition at the London Museum Docklands spotlights hundreds of mudlarking finds, from Bronze Age tools to Viking ...

Nancy T. de Grummond, director of excavations and archeological research at Cetamura del Chianti, examines an artifact with ...

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

An account of Jesus Christ's crucifixion in the Book of John states that he was buried in a tomb located in a garden just ...

Archaeologists may have found the garden near Jesus' burial site, uncovering 2,000-year-old olive and grape remains under Jerusalem's sacred church.

Knowing gold nuggets when you see them is the mark of a skilled historian, and there’s no better miner than Liisa Penner. I was reminded of this a couple weeks ago during my ongoing scavenger hunt in ...

Despite its close ties to Carthage, Ibiza negotiated a favourable treaty with the Romans, sparing it from destruction and permitting it to continue its Carthaginian-Punic institutions, traditions and ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...

A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The coin, believed to be the only of its kind discovered in the British ...

Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know how the rams were made ...

A new DFG project has been launched to study brick stamps in Roman Trier. Trier reached its peak in the 4th century AD, when ...