1+ hour, 15+ min ago   (43+ words) Egypt’s embassy in Switzerland recovered an ancient gold mummy mask from Swiss authorities.The handover is part of an ongoing campaign by Egyptian diplomatic missions abroad to reclaim antiquities smuggled out of the country, in coordination with host-country authorities.It…...

1+ hour, 47+ min ago   (269+ words) The fragment is from Book 12, when Zeus curses Odysseus' men for killing and eating Helios' sacred cattle. A researcher was perusing a collection of old Egyptian texts in a Dutch library when he stumbled upon a torn piece of parchment…...

5+ hour, 59+ min ago   (179+ words) Published Sep 16, 2026 12:01 PM EDT The small pendant was recovered from inside the remnants of an ancient urban estate, and is an example of Zmeeviki or coil image. These double-sided pieces traditionally paired a canonical Christian figure on the front with…...

5+ hour ago   (837+ words) We have just spent several days at Murujuga, guided by traditional custodians around a deeply sacred place that contains the largest, oldest collection of Aboriginal rock art in the world. Since 2006, our organisation Friends of Australian Rock Art has been…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (23+ words) The "Great Mosaic" sits within the recently opened Museum of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppian Hill in central Rome....

1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (24+ words) Archaeologists say they've discovered the remains of a likely ancient Egyptian warhorse given an honorific burial more than 3,000 years ago....

6+ hour, 4+ min ago   (276+ words) Centuries of Danish history have been hiding under a modest soccer field. Archaeologists say a routine scan of a long-used playing field in Roskilde, Denmark, has revealed the... Surprise Find Under Soccer Field: Medieval Convent Centuries of Danish history have…...

7+ hour, 11+ min ago   (21+ words) First came the destruction. Now, a battle is unfolding over whether centuries of Armenian Christian history will be remembered at all....

9+ hour, 26+ min ago   (869+ words) For more than 2,000 years, it has been claimed that the Parthenon's famous curves were designed to correct an optical illusion, making the temple appear straight. Now, a new study debunks this enduring myth. An Oxford mathematician has combined geometry, engineering…...

11+ hour ago   (483+ words) Metal detectors have had a banner year in Scandinavia, where records for the largest recovered Viking silver hoards have been made in Norway, Denmark, and now Finland. A man found two large hoards of silver in southern Finland, containing thousands…...