Some 3,500 years ago, someone climbed a hill on Naxos carrying a handful of pebbles from the beach and left them on the floor ...
Archaeologists in Constanța, Romania, have opened an intact Roman sarcophagus from the 2nd or 3rd century AD. Inside was a child's wooden coffin, bronze objects, clay toys and flower garlands. They ...
Archaeologists working ahead of a parking lot in the Sardinian village of Loculi have exposed a 700-square-metre site with remains from the Bronze Age to post-medieval times. Among them is a fragment ...
In 1806, the British traveler William Martin Leake was exploring Arcadia, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece, convinced he had found the ruins of the ancient city of Thyrea. He was mistaken. But ...
A Roman soldier found at the bottom of a well in the Netherlands in 1977 was stabbed far more often than anyone knew, according to Leiden University archaeologists. His teeth show he grew up in ...
Excavators at Troy have recovered a bone flute from around 800 BC, which they describe as the first musical instrument found at the site in more than 160 years of digging. The head of a human-shaped ...
To measure a horse painted 37,000 years ago, you would normally walk up to the wall. At Chauvet that is impossible. The cave floor still holds footprints tens of thousands of years old, and nobody is ...
Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had ever ...
In 1933, the British writer James Hilton published Lost Horizon, the most successful novel of his career. Four years later, ...
Bronze is mostly copper with a smaller share of tin, and the copper that prehistoric miners could reach was scattered ...
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