Presidential libraries in the United States today follow the same principle: They become monuments to the former presidents, ...

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Vacationing Tourist Stumbles Upon Ancient Roman Sarcophagus That Was Being Used as a Beach Bar Table The identification of ...

Thousands of years later, embalmed bodies still retain their scents. An international team of researchers has studied them to ...

Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the ...

Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces—in fact chunks—of the city's origins almost ...

After detailed scans of the find and a yearslong preservation process, experts identified the material as a 1,600-year-old purple fabric woven with gold threads. Its purple dye, now faded to a red ...

Archaeologists have uncovered physical evidence of Tenea, an ancient Trojan city once believed to exist only in myth. Located ...

Discover what Alexander the Great might have looked like through AI-generated images based on ancient descriptions and ...

A spectacular necropolis just outside Naples contains stunning tombs that were carved into rock by the ancient Greeks who ...

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match the imaginations of Pope Leo X. The four-year-old animal, having endured a ...