A 1,000-year-old Buddhist statue taken from Tibet by Nazi scientists is the first-known carving of a human figure made from a meteorite,…
The spectacular 5th century BC statue known at the Motya Charioteer will be in London for just a few weeks more, after…
We are proud to share with you the first published photos of the House of the Telephus Relief at Herculaneum since archaeologists…
843 artefacts stolen during Afghanistan's 1992-4 civil war have been returned to the National Museum in Kabul by the British Museum.…
A remarkable discovery by Beatrix Nutz has taken the world by surprise: bras were worn 600 years ago! Bras were originally thought…
Excavators near Leipzig have discovered what appear to be the remnants of an ancient purse encrusted with over 100 dog teeth.…
A research team led by the University of Bristol has found proof that dairy farming was practised in Saharan Africa 7,000 years…
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem has been made a World Heritage Site, together with three other sites in Israel, Indonesia…
By Dexter Findley The sea is our planet’s last frontier: we know less about the ocean floor than we do the surface…
Rock engravings discovered at Abri Castanet, in southern France, have been dated to 37,000 BP, making them the earliest known examples of…