Carmen, that beguiling Andalusian beauty created by a 19th-century French writer and afterwards made legendary by artists of different nationalities—in opera, dance, and film—continues to fascinate.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen ...

Police arrested five people accused of damaging the archaeological park, which is home to the 500-year-old ruins of a fallen ...

Construction workers dug inside a museum in Croatia and stumbled upon the remnants of a historic structure. Take a look.