And as a simple – albeit admittedly pretentious – document of a boundary-pushing band finding focus and fusion after a period ...

Archaeologists in West Texas have made an astonishing discovery which sheds light on the lives of prehistoric humans in ...

The passage of time has done nothing to diminish Pompeii's capacity to shock. With ossified bodies and filthy paintings ...

Ancient rhinos lived in tight-knit herds and died together at Nebraska’s Ashfall Fossil Beds, study of teeth reveals ...

The animals were slowly killed by ash falling from the Yellowstone supervolcano, but it preserved their bodies and has ...

While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii uncovered a life-size funerary relief at the Porta Sarno necropolis, depicting a man and a woman ...

Nearly 2,000 years after a volcanic eruption caused hot ash to blanket the city, construction on railway lines revealed a ...

Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.

Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a massive tomb in Pompeii.

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...