A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

BUFFALO, NEW YORK—According to a report in The New York Times, two separate studies conducted by Omer Gokcumen of the University at Buffalo and Peter Sudmant of the University of California ...

1st-century A.D. grave with cremated remains and grave goods during excavation ...

CHIFENG CITY, CHINA—ARTnews reports that more than 100 jade dragon figurines have been recovered from a burial mound in Mongolia’s Yuanbaoshan archaeological site. The figurines have been ...

MÜNSTER, GERMANY—CBS News reports that traces of an early Christian church have been uncovered in Armenia, at the site of the ancient city of Artaxata, by a team of German and Armenian researchers.

BLIND RIVER, ONTARIO—CBC News reports that the Canadian Museum of History has repatriated the skull of a child, the skull of an older adult, and a collection of artifacts to the Mississauga ...

Seen from the air before a major National Trust restoration effort, Knole House in Sevenoaks, Kent, is one of the largest homes in England. It has been expanded and modified many times since the ...

The woeful state of Viking bathrooms could be a factor behind smokers’ coughs in Scandinavia. Sometimes in human evolution, populations adapt in ways that aren’t always beneficial in the long run.

A monumental Minoan building surrounding a 110-foot-long courtyard has been uncovered at Sissi on the northern coast of Crete. Built around 1700 B.C. and featuring finely plastered floors, the ...

Ruined farmstead, Loch Ard Forest, Scotland (Courtesy Matt Ritchie) Terrestrial laser-scan image of farmstead(Courtesy Matt Ritchie) Amid the ruins of two eighteenth ...

GIA LAI PROVINCE, VIETNAM—According to a VN Express report, the remains of 32 Vietnamese soldiers and wartime artifacts were discovered in Vietnam’s Central Highlands during the construction ...

OSTRÁ LÚKA, SLOVAKIA—According to a report in The Slovak Spectator, a geophysical survey conducted at the site of the Church of the Epiphany in central Slovakia’s town of Ostrá Lúka has ...