Archaeologists in Pompeii have reconstructed a wooden cupboard from the traces it left in the volcanic deposits, along with what it held: a beauty kit, a necklace of at least 24 tiny amulets, a basket ...

A written account of Jesus rising from the dead was identified in a 2,000-year-old manuscript: Unverified Josephus wrote in ...

A new study of charred plant remains from Hala Sultan Tekke, a Late Bronze Age harbor city in Cyprus, suggests that mourners left meals in some tombs and burned bundles of grain and wild flowers in ...

Excavations at Las Minillas in Badajoz have dated a Late Bronze Age copper mine to about 1350 to 750 BC. Its ore, slag and ...

A viral X post says the Merneptah Stele confirms the Bible. It is a genuinely important early witness that names Israel as a ...

A viral X post says Bosch painted a playable song on a sinner's backside in Hell. The notes are in the painting and a student ...

A new study in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association argues that a skeleton found inside a Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey may belong to Ælfwig, an abbot who died around 1020.

For centuries, readers knew the text mainly through scattered quotations in early Christian writers. Then, in the 1880s and ...

Football, rugby and lacrosse all received their first agreed rulebooks in the 19th century, which can make team sports look ...

The Voynich manuscript may be difficult to read for a surprisingly physical reason: its pages could have been assembled in ...

The Denisovan story began in 2010, when genetic material from a finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova Cave revealed an ...

A new study has found that the people who made China’s Terracotta Army may have included women and children, not only adult ...