Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,600-year-old city in Egypt replete with watchtowers, a church and a trove of artefacts.

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines how an ancient scholar’s mathematical discovery pioneered our modern zero.

On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone—popular in jewelry since the Bronze Age and valued highly ...

An 18th-century archaeological dig uncovered a library of intact but charred scrolls. Their contents have been unreadable ...

BANGKOK — Two gold rings, aged around 2,000 years old, were discovered during an excavation at a new archaeological site in ...

Probing the dawn of the cosmos for clues to how the first galaxies and supermassive black holes formed is no easy feat ...

Two gold rings aged around 2,000 years old were discovered during an excavation at a new archaeological site in western ...

It contains fossils that are one million years old ...

Archaeologists have deciphered an ancient inscription mentioning both Jesus Christ and Mithras at a Roman temple, written in ...

Archaeologists uncovered the eight-foot-tall, six-ton monument to one of Egypt's greatest rulers miles away from its original ...

It’s the kind of discovery that sounds more Indiana Jones than archaeology lab. Researchers digging in Israel say they may ...

The temple dates back to Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, the last native dynasty of ancient Egypt before the Persian conquest in 525 ...