The experts said that the findings prove that the motifs known from cylinder seals are directly related to the development of ...

In an extraordinary find, archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest Christian ... Chi-Rho graffiti, and a fish symbol ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

According to the interdisciplinary research team, which involved experts from the U.K.'s Durham University and the Leibniz Center for Archaeology in Germany, the Gönnersdorf engravings are among ...

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

The Su Nuraxi stone complex was built by some of Sardinia’s oldest-known settlers, the mysterious Nuragic people.

The ancient town, which dates back to 2400 BC, is believed to have been a 2.6-hectare settlement with around 50 multi-story homes that housed approximately 500 residents, French archaeologist ...

Early Christian churches were often shaped like an octagon, which was an early Christian church symbol for the resurrection of Jesus and, more broadly, the rebirth of life. Archaeologists recently ...

A joint team of Greek and Austrian archaeologists unearthed a massive ruined temple on a hill near Samikon in 2021 and ...

Inside two of the burials, the archaeologists uncovered copper mirrors, one with a lotus flower-shaped handle, and the other with a rare design of the face of the goddess Hathor, often associated ...

Archaeologists discovered a walled city in the northern Saudi Arabian desert that was likely home to 500 people as far back as 2,400 B.C. The experts believe the city’s roughly 1,000 years of ...

La Nacion reports, "Professor Polinski believes that with Zosia being buried with a sickle around her neck, she was the most ...