Scenes of battle and words of romantic passion were scratched over 2,000 years ago onto a corridor wall outside of a theater.

It’s a place to have a spa day fit for an emperor. The largest private Roman bathhouse ever found in the ruined ancient city of Pompeii has been discovered recently by archaeologists under a pile of ...

I have always been fascinated by the idea of walking through history, imagining the lives of people who lived thousands of ...

A rare 5th-century BC bone stylus unearthed in Sicily features an erotic carving of the Greek god Dionysus—his bearded face ...

Researchers have shown that they can piggyback a signal on a 4,400-kilometer-long telecom cable that runs from California to Hawaii, allowing it to act like 44,000 separate seismic-activity detectors.

Off the coast of Marseille, National Geographic Explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau hauled up thousands of ancient clay vessels—and showed what fantastic discoveries modern scuba gear made possible. This ...

This breakthrough adds to our understanding of how the Romans achieved remarkable feats in architecture. Researchers found a well-preserved construction site, frozen in time by the eruption of Mount ...

A 10,000-year-old pottery vessel has been discovered in Lake Biwa, Japan, providing rare insight into the Jomon period, one of the world’s oldest civilizations. The vessel, discovered at a depth of 64 ...

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Archaeologists from the University of Tübingen and the LMU Munich have unearthed the ruins of an ancient pottery workshop at the early Iron Age Dinka Settlement Complex in the Peshdar Plain, ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing. Researchers report that the Halafian culture of northern ...