Pope Francis’ controversial meeting on the Amazon took a criminal twist Monday after thieves stole indigenous fertility statues from a Vatican-area church and tossed them into the Tiber River.
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An 8,000-year-old pearl that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest will be displayed in Abu Dhabi, according to authorities who said Sunday it is proof the objects have been traded since Neolithic times.
Read moreExcavations in the city of David in the Jerusalem Walls National Park have revealed an ancient street likely walked by pilgrims on their way to worship at the Temple Mount.
Read moreA vivid fresco depicting an armor-clad gladiator standing victorious as his wounded opponent stumbles gushing blood has been discovered in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy’s culture ministry said Friday.The striking scene in gold, blue and red was uncovered in what experts think was a tavern frequented by gladiators, who fought each other, prisoners and wild animals for the public’s entertainment.
Read moreThe golden angel once glimmered majestically from Notre Dame’s vault.
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The ancestral remains of Native American tribes that once called the cliffs of Mesa Verde National Park home will be repatriated as part of an agreement between Finland and the United States.
Read moreA leading science facility in the English countryside is helping in a bid to decipher Roman-era scrolls carbonized in the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.
Read moreJapanese scientists have identified a new species of dinosaur from a nearly complete skeleton that was the largest ever discovered in the country, measuring 26 feet long.
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Scientists are using artificial intelligence to analyze X-ray images of paintings, sorting through the massive amounts of data available and offering potential new insights that could aid investigations into unlocking the secrets of ancient works of art, according to new research published Friday.
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Archaeologists combing through Cooper’s Ferry, a site in western Idaho containing some of the earliest evidence of human life, have discovered artifacts placing humans in the northwest region 16,500 years ago, according to a study released Thursday.
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Much has been made about the taming of the wild, uninhabitable country by pioneers who are romanticized in literature and history books, but a study released Thursday reveals global transformation from humans thousands of years ago has been underestimated.
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Archaeologists are set to unveil the answer to a 200-year-old question over the remains of a French general who died during Napoleon’s 1812 campaign in Russia.
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French police are hunting for robbers who have stolen bronze bells from the steeples of listed Provencal churches in the dead of night over the past month.
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Archeologists in Peru say the 227 bodies they have unearthed from a site used by the pre-Columbian Chimu culture is the biggest-ever discovery of sacrificed children.
Read moreImplementing an ordinance that came into effect a month ago, police officers are working Wednesday to tell seated Italians and tourists to get up from one of the Eternal City’s most famous and photographed spots.
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An appeals court in Amsterdam said Tuesday it needs more time to rule on the ownership of a valuable trove of historical artifacts loaned to a Dutch museum by four museums in Crimea shortly before the region’s annexation by Russia in 2014.
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A joint Albanian-American underwater archaeology project says it has found amphoras that are at least 2,500 years old in the Ionian Sea off the Albanian coast, which might yield an ancient shipwreck.
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Researchers have discovered an ancient bird fossilized in amber with a toe structure unlike anything seen before in animal history.
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A pair of ancient skulls found in Greece may prove the earliest modern humans migrated to Eurasia much earlier than originally believed, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature.
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A figure of a roaring lion, about the size of a loaf of bread, is the latest step in the fight to preserve culture from conflict.
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