The recently discovered tombs are around 650 feet long and 13 feet high, and are oriented with their entrances facing east.

During construction of new powerlines through Saxony-Anhalt, workers uncovered numerous ancient burials from various […] ...

Humans have been making and using wooden tools for over one million years, but since they decompose quickly, they rarely ...

Reuters reports that Peruvian authorities announced the discovery of a major lost ancient city in the country’s Barranca ...

A fragment of marble column dating to the fifth century b.c. unearthed at the site of Casas del Turuñuelo in southwestern ...

Underwater archaeologists located the remains of a Roman-era breakwater at the site of the ancient harbor of Misenum on the ...

A 15th-century manuscript shows trees bearing (clockwise from top left): sweet apples, jujubes, lemons, cherries, dates, and sour apples. By 7,000 years ago, people in New Guinea were cultivating ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him ...

An archaeologist excavates one of the ceramic urns at the site of Lago do Cochila in Fonte Boa, Brazil. LAGO DO CHOCILA, ...

WAT DHAMMACHAK SEMARAM, THAILAND—The 1,300-year-old temple of Wat Dhammachak Semaram in Sung Noen is famous for housing the oldest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand, which measures 43 feet ...