Archaeologists also found four gold pieces placed inside the mouths of some of the deceased, known as ‘the golden tongue’ ...
For 1,600 years, a once-thriving frontier settlement lay buried beneath Egypt's western desert. Once governed by Byzantine ...
Researchers investigating the well-known House of Thiasus in Pompeii became fascinated with an unconnected stone staircase. A digital architectural reconstruction (based on features still present at ...
A valley of lost cities has been discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon. When you hear of such a discovery you might think of archaeologists with chisels and brushes or explorers in pith helmets ...
“Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis,” the exhibition of architectural artifacts now on view at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation here, does this with a radical shift in context. It brings us ...
The improbable discovery last year of Richard III’s skeleton under a parking lot in Leicester, England, is a reminder that while some burials of great historical figures are lost to posterity, careful ...