When you want to see a piece of history, you go to a museum. But what if there are no museums nearby or a ticket is just too ...

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New finds at Greece’s Mieza strengthen links to Alexander the Great’s education under Aristotle at the Royal Gymnasium.

A new study untangles the complex microbial history of Ötzi the Iceman, revealing which microorganisms originated during his lifetime and which arrived long after his death.

When it comes to ancient Egypt, archaeologists never know what they might find – and visitors are bound to be dazzled by the displays in the recently opened Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In recent ...

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Five theatrical masks discovered at an ancient Turkish site are dated to the time of the Roman Empire. The masks were found alongside a 5,000-seat theater built by the Romans in the first century C.E.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When archaeologists studying a fifth-century Swedish site found a human skeleton lying on the floor of a house, they wondered why ...

The Egyptians Used an Ancient Version of Wite-Out to Correct Their Mistakes on This Papyrus Scroll 3,300 Years Ago An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming ...

In the words of his mother, Rowan Brannan of Bognor, England has "always been into finding all sorts of bits and pieces." So ...

At excavations in the Stratonikeia Ancient City, known as the “City of Gladiators” in the Yatağan district of Muğla, ...

A series stone reliefs discovered in southern Turkey is truly befitting of the theater district they were found in. Archaeologists uncovered five distinctly theatrical mask-style reliefs sporting ...