Archaeologist Katherine Rinne stands beside a large ancient Roman springhouse that may belong to the lost "Carestia" spring, one of the possible sources of the Aqua Traiana. Few monuments that ...

Versions of the same Bronze Age structure pop up all around Ireland and throughout the United Kingdom. Archaeologists, however, still have not agreed on their purpose. On a typically misty morning ...

The vast site of Portus holds the key to understanding how Rome evolved from a mighty city to an empire Portus, now some two miles from the Mediterranean shoreline, was built by the Romans in the ...

After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...

The Pacific Commercial Advertiser made the Hawaiian cowboy rodeo victory front-page news on August 23, 1908. The photo shows champion Ikua Purdy, Archie Ka‘au‘a, and another cowboy named Spencer.

For years, archaeologist Timothy Pugh thought he was simply following the cows as he walked across the site of Nixtun-Ch’ich’, an ancient Maya city in northern Guatemala. The site, whose name ...

When you were a child, you probably had toys such as plastic or porcelain dolls and plush, furry animals that may have included mythical beings such as unicorns. You may have created skits in ...

GERSTETTEN, GERMANY—According to a report in The Independent, a 1,700-year-old grave was discovered in southern Germany during a construction project. The grave contained the remains of a 60 ...

VAN, TURKEY—Newsweek reports that three well-preserved bronze shields and a helmet were discovered at Ayanis, a 2,700-year-old Urartian citadel on a hill overlooking Lake Van in eastern Turkey ...