A researcher looking at erosion along a Canada river discovered an ancient indigenous site. Screengrab from Sturgeon Lake First Nation Official's Facebook post Just north of Prince Albert in central ...

New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome - Visitors can walk over the map in the museum in ...

Rome has uncovered the four large marble maps illustrating its evolution and expansion, from its foundation to the apex of its empire, hanging on the Via dei Fori, in front of the Colosseum, which had ...

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...

The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

When Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., 13 years after building one of the world's largest empires ... It was kind of a miracle." Topographical maps and ancient sources suggest the area where the ...

In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...

Such accidental archaeological discoveries are not uncommon in Greece, a country with rich ancient heritage, where finds are frequently made during construction and public works projects. In December, ...

Key finds, including a marble-paved Roman thoroughfare and tens of thousands of artifacts spanning the Greek, Byzantine and Ottoman periods, are now showcased at subway stations. Ancient statues ...

working among buried World War II-era bombs as they (the archaeologists, not the bombs) dug up 141 pure gold Roman coins known as solidi from the base of a Roman fortified watchtower. With ...