For decades, a sealed basement room sat untouched beneath an unremarkable building, its existence known to only a few and its contents to no one. When it was finally opened, investigators stepped into ...
Digital imaging reveals hidden secrets of Aegean scripts, helping researchers study ancient Bronze Age tablets from Mycenae ...
A discovery has been made under the paving stones of Canterbury city-center square in southern England, of a previously unknown vault. A brick-lined chamber, an “empty void” beneath St Mary Bredman ...
Recent excavations at a 6th-century BC temple in western Greece have unearthed compelling evidence suggesting that some ancient sanctuaries were more than just places of worship. A team of ...
A secret Minoan fire technique may explain how Bronze Age artisans in Crete changed serpentinite vases from blue to red.
A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a ...
The lives and craft of ancient Egyptian artisans are the subject of a new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Sketch showing a stonemason at work, holding a chisel ...
Researchers uncovered millions of ancient plant DNA switches—some older than flowering plants themselves—revealing a hidden evolutionary blueprint stretching back 400 million years. Most people have ...