A recent study has revealed that Neolithic builders at the Motza site near Jerusalem mastered a highly complex plaster production technique nearly 8,000 years before the Romans. The discovery of ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...

The dust-covered relic emerges from the earth, promising to rewrite history books and challenge everything we thought we knew about the past. For centuries, archaeological discoveries have captured ...

Archaeologists have confirmed a “remarkable” 2,200-year-old discovery resting just 13 feet below the surface of the Adriatic Sea, on the Croatian island of Ilovik, per a recently published study in ...

About 2,000 years ago, life in the Roman town of Pompeii—located in modern-day Italy—looked a lot like life anywhere else. However, on the morning of August 24, 79 C.E., the nearby Mount Vesuvius ...

A recent discovery in Germany has revealed a 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur fossil, specifically from the Temnodontosaurus ...