New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Here are some of the latest discoveries: In the heart of Rome, a dazzling blue material dating back 2,000 years ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

A collection of artifacts has been found in one of the largest and most complex Chu-era burials ever found. This cache is ...

(WOOD) — The Grand Rapids Public Museum was closed Thursday after a pipe burst and caused some flooding. The flooding was ultimately contained. About three dozen artifacts were damaged and removed.

In “Embers of the Hands,” historian Eleanor Barraclough digs deep into the ways that the Vikings loved, traveled and even played.

Artifacts found at the site range from the Late Bronze Age ... “These coins were uncovered in an exceptional state of preservation, possibly deposited during the Viking Age when the Carolingian Empire ...

Nearby the site of that discovery, INRAP uncovered a treasure from a much different empire—one that, judging from the well-preserved nature of the artifact, may have been under a great deal of ...

Displayed on the table were two special artifacts from the Vesterheim collection: a model of the Jelling Stone, erected by King Harald “Bluetooth” of Denmark between 965 and 985, and a sword from a ...

The Viking ship Skidbladner ... The discs share similarities with wooden solar compasses found across Europe, including markings characteristic of sundial-compasses. Researchers compared the ...

This widespread use of wood set into motion a self-reinforcing cycle: craftsmen specialised in wooden construction, industries geared up to supply wooden materials, and building codes were ...

They analyzed the rings on some bites of wood in the cores and found evidence ... sheds new light on a group of unique archaeological artifacts called sun stones from the Vasagård site on the ...

Royal treasures hidden for more than 85 years have been rediscovered in Lithuania. The artefacts, which include crowns, a sceptre and rings, hadn't been seen since the start of World War Two in 1939.