This coin, called a denarius, was minted by Rome 108 B.C.-107 B.C and likely made of silver that originated in southeastern Spain. The three red marks indicate where the coin was drilled into for purposes of accessing unweathered metal.Credit: : Institute
Lost Biblical city found?Experts believe they have found the lost Roman city of Julias, formerly the village of Bethsaida, which was the home of Jesus' apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip.Last month, archaeologists from the Kinneret Institute for Galilean A
Wet-sieving at the site of Ras Mkumbuu, Pemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Ras Mkumbuu is a 10th century Swahili trading port. Faunal remains, including those analyzed in this study, were recovered at this site.Credit: Mark HortonThe earliest introduction
Agatha Christie lived here once, but only memories remain of the time the best-selling crime writer spent among the ruins of the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud.The mud-brick house where the British author of “Murder on the Orient Express” once stayed is lon
The art of Mogao Caves was displayed with 3D technology during the Summer Davos Forum in Dalian, Liaoning province, in 2015. Digitization, internet traffic used to ease number of visitorsThe popularity of the Mogao Caves, which house the world's largest c
The possible skull of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Sanakht of the Third Dynasty.Credit: Public DomainThe supposed remains of Sa-Nakht, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt, may be the oldest known human giant, a new study finds.Myths abound withstories of giants, from
The Minotaur is a legendary beast said to have been caged in a labyrinth in Crete.Lapplaender / Wikimedia CommonsAncient DNA from Bronze Age Greek human remains has been sequenced for the first time. The findings could transform historical interpretations
King Tutankhamun lived between roughly 1343 B.C. and 1323 B.C.Credit: Jaroslav Moravcik/ShutterstockKing Tutankhamun, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,300 years ago, slept on the forerunner of our modern camping bed, according to a study presented
A mosaic of a hunting party of Amazon queens and animals.Home to the warrior Amazon queen mosaics unearthed during groundbreaking excavations, the Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum in Turkey's Şanlıurfa province offers a unique experienceThe Halep
Artefact, made in 698, is regarded as most important wooden object surviving in England from before Norman conquest
Genetic sequencing shows descendants of Canaanites live on, in Lebanon.
Malaria was already widespread on Sardinia by the Roman period, long before the Middle Ages, as research on a Roman who died 2,000 years ago indicates.
In the mid-16th century, a bookbinder picked up a piece of parchment — one that was already centuries old — and used it to bind a book of poetry. This parchment's text remained unreadable for nearly 500 years, but now, thanks to state-of-the-art imaging t
However, the citrus fruits that followed in later years weren't as exclusive as lemons and citrons, said the study's lead researcher, Dafna Langgut, an archaeobotanist at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Farmers harvest wheat nearby the Xianling Mausoleum, the tomb of Emperor Gaozu, who was the founder of the Tang Dynasty. Generations of guardians in the Weibei plateau region of Shaanxi province have watched over the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) imperial mau
