For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began ...

Researchers unearthed everyday objects like grain grinders, an oven and some 200 ostraca—ancient receipts and notes written ...

More than a century ago, a scratched-up slab of limestone was excavated in the modern-day Netherlands and later deemed an ancient Roman game board. Since then, the mysterious game has eluded ...

In Serbia, archaeologists are carefully removing sand and soil from the well-preserved wooden remains of a Roman ship. The ship was found by miners in a large coal quarry. Following the exposure of ...

Whether standing stones, nondescript mounds, or lines in the earth, ancient civilizations have left signs of their existence that must have held deep meaning for them that is now lost to time.