CAMBODIA: Workers searching through a pile of debris for fallen roof stones from the Ta Nei Temple in Angkor unexpectedly unearthed the head of an ancient bodhisattva statue. The sculpture, which ...

MAGELANG, INDONESIA—Artnet News reports that Satoshi Tanaka of Ritsumeikan University, Jiao Pan of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, and their colleagues developed a neural ...

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet ...

Glasgow Times reports that volunteers from Clutha Archaeology Group, in collaboration with Archaeology Scotland […] ...

Rarely has a single find changed scholars’ views of the capabilities of people of the past as radically as the discovery of the world’s earliest known wooden architecture, which dates to ...

LUXOR, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a tomb dated to the Middle Kingdom period has been discovered in the Asasif necropolis at Thebes, which is located on the western bank of the Nile River in ...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—NBC News reports that forensic artist Oscar Nilsson has reconstructed the face of Zosia, a woman who was buried with the blade of a sickle across her neck some 400 years ago.

The succession crisis that gripped Egypt near the end of the 18th Dynasty not only plunged the lives of Amenhotep III’s surviving family members into turmoil, it also sealed the fate of an ...

A spiral temple sits atop a 3,000-year-old burial mound known as Montegrande in northern Peru’s Amazon region.(Courtesy Quirino Olivera Nuñez) The Amazon jungle wasn’t supposed to have been ...

In no other matter did he act more wasteful than in building a house that stretched from the Palatine to the Esquiline Hill, which he originally named “Transitoria” [House of Passages], but ...

A stone mound created by Native Americans between 1550 and 1760 measures up to 30 feet in diameter and is the largest such feature at the site of River Glen in Georgia’s Jackson County.