A new exhibit shows plaster casts of Pompeii victims frozen at the time of death

A new permanent exhibition has opened in Pompeii that shows plaster casts of people killed in the Mount Vesuvius eruption, ...

Archaeologists Were Digging Through Rubble—and Found the 1,500-Year-Old Head of a Roman Statue

Archeologists working at the Basilica of Saint Stephen in Rome discovered a statue head within the church’s foundation. Located near the Tombe di Via Latina, the carved stone was likely treated as ...

Ancient sanctuary tied to 'most mysterious' cult uncovered in rare find beneath historic city

A rare Roman temple dedicated to mystery cult deity Mithras was discovered in Germany, with the oldest-known sanctuary in Bavaria dating to the first or second centuries A.D.

Archaeologists Were Preparing a Site for Hospital Construction—and Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Graves

Archaeologists brought in for a routine survey ahead of a hospital construction project in the Romanian city of Constanta ...

Can this medieval shipwreck rewrite ancient history?

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.