A mysterious artefact dating back to Roman times has boosted visitor numbers at Lincoln Museum.The dodecahedron, one of only ...
When stains had to be cleaned from a mosaic that once decorated a lavish pleasure vessel from the first century, they were ...
Two decades ago, a group of amateur archaeologists unearthed a large metal object from a hillside in the English midlands. The unassuming brown clump was not much to behold, and the archaeologists ...
We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a ...
The origin of the remarkable Iron Pillar, part of the world-heritage-listed Qutub funerary complex in India’s Delhi, is lost ...
The metallic objects are extremely varied in nature and include everyday items as well as those used for ritual purposes.
Once shrouded in history and legend, the so-called tunics of St. Peter and St. John the Evangelist have been subjected to a ...
"Baldwin’s Treasure" is a premier collection of Byzantine sacred antiquities, including rare Christian and Jewish objects, ...
Three items found in the Great Pyramid of Giza with a mysterious history continue to divide archaeologists to this day ...
One Reddit user suggested they could have been left by some kind of "big cat," while another claimed it could be something ...
Another theory is that it depicts the mother of Lord Buddha, in part because the woman figure is holding a branch of the ...
This week at the Gizmodo science desk, deputy editor George Dvorsky reported on a modification to the famous Drake Equation ...