Artifacts
Why This Ancient Civilization Fell Out of Love With Gold for 700 Years
Analysis of 4,500 artifacts suggests an early society between the Black and Caspian Seas turned against bling
Baby Buried With Care 10,000 Years Ago Found in Italian Cave
The rare interment suggests that some hunter-gatherer societies imbued female infants with full personhood
Sold: Paul Revere Family Artifacts Found in a Boston-Area Attic
A trade sign bearing the name of the patriot’s son, along with letters and personal items owned by his grandchildren, sold at auction for $20,000
Medieval Ink Pen Testifies to the Rise of Secular Literacy in Ireland
The 11th-century tool may have been used to record family lineages and trade agreements
New York Antiquities Collector Returns 180 Stolen Artifacts Worth $70 Million
A deal made with the Manhattan district attorney bars billionaire Michael Steinhardt from purchasing ancient objects for the rest of his life
Rare Physical Evidence of Roman Crucifixion Found in Britain
Researchers discovered the skeleton of a man with a nail hammered through his heel bone
Mummies With Gold Tongues Found Inside 2,500-Year-Old Tombs in Egypt
The rare discovery of a sealed tomb yielded well-preserved grave goods including 400 funerary figures
How Robots Could Help Restore Fragmented Frescoes in Pompeii
Using artificial intelligence, scientists have put together a computerized system that could rebuild the magnificent murals destroyed by Mount Vesuvius
Aztec Altar Secretly Built After the Spanish Conquest Discovered in Mexico City
Researchers found incense burners, a vessel containing cremated remains and other artifacts in the former capital of Tenochtitlán
Egyptian Jewelry, Mesopotamian Seal Found in Cyprus Offer Clues to Bronze Age Trade Networks
Artifacts found in a pair of tombs on the Mediterranean island speak to the interconnected nature of the ancient world
Why Did This Chinese City of Canals Collapse in the Third Millennium B.C.E.?
New research suggests Liangzhu, "China's Venice of the Stone Age," was abandoned due to extreme flooding
Found in a Candy Tin: One of the First Coins Struck in Colonial North America
Illegally minted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the 1652 silver shilling recently sold at auction for $351,912
British Teenager Discovers Rare Bronze Age Ax Hoard
Milly Hardwick, a 13-year-old from Suffolk, stumbled onto a cache of 65 artifacts dated to around 1300 B.C.E.
Huge Roman Mosaic Depicting Scenes From the 'Iliad' Found Beneath U.K. Field
The artwork features scenes from the Iliad showing Achilles’s defeat of Hector
Amateur Archaeologist in Switzerland Unearths 2,000-Year-Old Roman Dagger
Lucas Schmid's find led to the discovery of hundreds of other ancient artifacts linked to a 15 B.C.E. battle between imperial and Rhaetian forces
A Brief Scientific History of Glass
Featuring ingots, shipwrecks and an international trade in colors, the material’s rich past is being traced using modern archaeology and materials science
Rare First Printing of the U.S. Constitution Is the Most Expensive Text Ever Sold at Auction
A collective of cryptocurrency owners attempted to buy the document but was outbid by Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin, who shelled out $43.2 million
Tiny Gold Book Found in English Field May Have Ties to Richard III
Experts say the 15th-century artifact bears striking similarities to the Middleham Jewel, a gold pendant found near the king's childhood home in 1985
Roman-Era Shops, Statues of Greek Deities Found in Ancient City in Turkey
Researchers in Aizanoi unearthed traces of a bone workshop and an oil lamp store, as well as the heads of sculptures depicting Aphrodite and Dionysus
Mass Grave of Women, Children Found in Pre-Hispanic City in Peru
Buried in the Chimú Empire capital of Chan Chan, some of the deceased were interred with needles and sewing tools
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