Ancient Artifacts

Researchers have reexamined an ancient silver cup, known as the Ain Samiya goblet, discovered in the West Bank in 1970 and dating back to the Intermediate Bronze Age...

Over roughly the last century — and especially during Cambodia's decades of war, genocide and instability from the 1970s through the 1990s — thousands of statues and...

An 8-year-old boy, Dor Wolynitz of Rehovot, Israel, found a small 6x6 cm stone fragment while visiting the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert during a family weekend o...

Forestry England announced that a dog walker named John found a Metal Age axe head among the roots of a fallen tree near Brierley in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestersh...

In January 2025 the Cotofenesti helmet (a 2,500-year-old Dacian gold helmet) and three gold bracelets were stolen in a raid on the Drents Museum in the Netherlands w...

Archaeologists excavating at the Byzantine-era city of Hippos, near the Sea of Galilee, uncovered a marble block roughly 1,400 years old in a smaller baptismal hall ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a lavish ancient Egyptian pleasure barge, known as a thalamegos, near the site of Cleopatra VII's lost palace in the roy...

Italian archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a sun temple attributed to King Nyuserre from Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, in the Abusir necropolis near Cairo. The te...

Divers have discovered a 7,000-year-old submerged wall off the coast of Brittany, France, making it the largest underwater construction ever found in the country. Th...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered a 1,500-year-old reindeer hunting facility, revealed by melting mountain ice on the Aurlandsfjellet plateau in Sogn. The disc...

CBS News' 60 Minutes revisited a multi-decade pattern of looting at Cambodian temples, much of it taking place during and after the Khmer Rouge era when instability ...

Italian officials and archaeologists announced the excavation and unveiling of a Roman domus discovered beneath the gymnasium of Rome’s Cavour High School, near the ...