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Mani, the district in the middle of the southern Peloponnese -- and mainland Europe’s southernmost promontory -- is one of Greece’s wildest and most distinct areas. Arid mountain slopes,...
A three-year international research project, directed by two academics at the University of Oxford, finds that humans have natural tendencies to believe in gods and an afterlife. The £1.9...
An archaeological team in the Bayuda Desert in northern Sudan has discovered dozens of new rock art drawings, some of which were etched more than 5,000 years ago and reveal scenes that scientists...
The deputy head of the Agsu archaeological expedition of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences, Fariz Khalili, announced that the ruins of an old...
Lying in the parched desert at the southwestern edge of Fayoum, the most easterly of the Western Desert oases, are the ruins of a city that flourished during the Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt and...
Knapsacks shouldered and bibles in hand, a group of Christian pilgrims from Indonesia, China and the United States trooped into the remains of a fourth-century church in ancient Philadelphia last...
U.S. customs agents have returned to Peru more than $43,000 worth of artifacts they seized last year from a man trying to smuggle them into Houston. US Authorities returned to Peru more...
Authorities at Beijing's Forbidden City made the embarrassing admission today that they had been burgled in the early hours of Monday morning. According to the official report, a lone thief made off...
Thirty-seven archaeological artefacts originating from Peru were handed over to the Peruvian ambassador in Italy, Cesar Castillo. The items come from the Moche, Chancay, Nazca, Pativilca, Vicus and...
Archaeologists are not convinced that the human skulls found in Annigeri town are 638 years old as concluded by the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneshwar. Sceptical about the accuracy of the...
Authorities in north China's Shanxi Province said Wednesday that they are planning to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status for the ruins of a famous battlefield where the State of Qin won its...
A Neanderthal-style toolkit found in the frigid far north of Russia's Ural Mountains dates to 33,000 years ago and may mark the last refuge of Neanderthals before they went extinct, according to a...
An exceptionally well-preserved example of an ancient Swahili stonetown on the coast of East Africa will be excavated by an international team of archaeologists from the Universities of Bristol and...
A new study of DNA suggests North America was originally populated by just a few dozen people who crossed a land bridge from Asia during the last Ice Age. A view of the Bering Strait land...
For the first time since its restoration and a three-year absence from the country, the famous krater of Trebeniste, the most significant discovery from late 6th and early 5th centuries BC, is back...
Switzerland's Museum of Basel will this week return to Egypt a limestone stele dating from over four thousand years ago - the first ancient treasure to be given back by another country since the...
At a glance, it would be tempting to call Poposaurus gracilis a dinosaur. This 225-million-year-old reptile stood on two legs, had small forelimbs, and sported a long, tapering tail that allowed it...
Humanity's profound impact on this planet is hard to deny, but is it big enough to merit its own geological epoch? This is the question facing geoscientists gathered in London this week to debate the...
For years, it was widely believed that the ancient Tune ship on display at the Viking Ships Museum in Oslo was used mainly as a so-called “grave ship,” perhaps even built for the purpose of being...
Romania has recovered more of a priceless ancient treasure, stolen years ago from the archaeological site of Sarmisegetusa Regia, the head of the national history museum said Wednesday. A...
OUR planet seems to be in just the right spot to sport a mild climate. Not too near the sun's heat, not too far from its warmth, in a narrow habitable zone in which water is liquid and life can...
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