In a complete distillation setup, this lower vessel would have held the material to be heated. A dome-shaped head, or helm, would be placed over the narrow neck. As the contents were heated, the ...

The desolate, wind-swept desert of the Paracas Peninsula on the southern coast of Peru holds one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. In 1928, the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Julio ...

The Egyptian Archaeological Mission of the Supreme Council of Antiquities has unearthed a significant portion of a Greco-Roman era necropolis at Tell Kom Aziza in the Beheira Governorate. This major ...

What makes Watson Brake so valuable for archaeologists is its age. The site has been excavated and researched to estimate the ...

In the deep, dark passages of Bàsura Cave in northwestern Italy, an extraordinary discovery has shed new light on the ...

Paris has long been a city built on its own past, but rarely has that truth been made quite so literal as it is today beneath ...

When we think of the crusading orders of the Middle Ages, we think of the Knights Templar, the legendary warrior-monks who ...

This second set of remains belonged to what the world would come to know as the Starchild Skull. For nearly a century, this artifact has served as a battlefield between those who believe in ...

During Japan's Kofun Period (250–538 AD), no fully centralized imperial state governed the archipelago, but a powerful Yamato polity was gradually consolidating authority over much of western Japan.

Mithras, a deity with ancient Iranian roots associated with contracts and light, was widely worshipped across the Roman Empire from the 2nd to the 4th centuries AD. The cult was particularly popular ...

In October 1938, Italian archaeologist Amedeo Maiuri made a remarkable discovery during excavations at the ancient Roman city of Pompeii — a small, intricately carved ivory statuette of a female ...

In an astonishing blend of archaeology and baking, scientists have successfully cultivated ancient, cold-adapted yeast found on the body of Ötzi the Iceman to bake sourdough bread. This remarkable ...