Two bronze artifacts unearthed at the Gouwan site in central China’s Henan province have been dated to roughly 4,500 years ...

The 12th-century Kiddush cup, which sheds light on the little-known Jewish community of eastern Khorasan, went for $4 million ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum is the largest museum in the world for a single civilization, and holds a total of around 100,000 ...

The goblet gives us this very detailed picture of what people in 2300 BC had in mind about what the cosmos looked like before ...

A tiny silver goblet discovered decades ago in the Judean Hills might hold the oldest known depiction of cosmic creation – and the scenes etched into its surface tell a surprisingly peaceful story.

If you want to feel connected to ancient history, just take a look at your shoes, listen to some music played on a flute or take a sip of wine—it turns out that some of the oldest items humans have ...

Boomerangs, gracefully curved artifacts used for hunting, are quintessentially Australian. Or so we thought. More than 40,000 years ago, when mammoths still roamed the frigid plains of Ice Age Europe, ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of ...

A plaster cast of the Venus de Milo statue at the Wilcox Classical Museum at the University of Kansas. The museum, founded in 1888, is not well-known by many at KU's campus, but curator Philip Stinson ...

In a country known for the world’s oldest wonders, a new one now rises from the desert sands. More than 20 years in the making, the Grand Egyptian Museum opened this month to great fanfare, marking a ...