Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the ...

Archaeologists found the gold-plated artifact on a sacred island of Japan almost 70 years ago but only recently took a closer ...

Some people think that learning history might be useless. "It already happened, what's the point?" Yet the truth is that ...

Emperor Qin Shi Huang of the Qin dynasty was the first emperor of ancient China and ruled from 221 B.C. to 210 B.C. He's most ...

They had unearthed a 4,500-year-old flint blade fragment — a rare Stone Age find — in the Kernmünsterland region, along ...

Local authorities were tipped off about the artifacts and worked with archaeologists to identify the objects, officials said.

New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Here are some of the latest ...

Instead, the hole turned out to be a 1,600-year-old wooden well, officials said. Excavations uncovered a section of wooden pipe built from three tree trunks and measuring over 3 feet across as well as ...

In a potentially groundbreaking discovery, a recovered knife and armor fragments have been identified as burial items taken ...