CHIFENG CITY, CHINA—ARTnews reports that more than 100 jade dragon figurines have been recovered from a burial mound in Mongolia’s Yuanbaoshan archaeological site. The figurines have been dated to ...

When some of the first British farmers to live in the Lake District needed to gather at a central location, they may have chosen Castlerigg Stone Circle, a Neolithic monument built some 5,000 ...

Ancestor series, Canterbury Cathedral, England (left) and a panel depicting the prophet Nathan (right) Among Canterbury Cathedral’s architectural wonders are its ornate, centuries-old stained ...

At least two families in Oxford, England, may have followed a kosher diet more than 900 years ago. Archaeologists have uncovered remnants of two adjoining houses that were owned by Jewish families ...

According to a twelfth-century legend, the island of Selja is the birthplace of Norwegian Christianity and the location where the country’s only female martyr, a tenth-century a.d. Irish ...

In his On the Embassy to Gaius, the first-century a.d. historian Philo of Alexandria recounts a diplomatic mission he led from Egypt to Rome seeking intervention on behalf of Alexandria’s Jews.

A sailing ship that sank in the Baltic Sea off the Swedish island of Öland in the late nineteenth century was packed with specialty beverages. Divers from the Baltictech diving group, led by ...

Archaeologists have learned that a collection of 42 stone circles recently discovered at a site in southern Norway’s Østfold County marks an unusually large concentration of children’s burials.

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis.

How gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses The sun illuminated the stadium in Ephesus, a wealthy harbor city in western Anatolia, on a day of eagerly anticipated gladiatorial ...

A one-foot-wide bronze mask dating to around 1100 b.c. emerges from beneath a bronze vessel containing cowrie shells during recent excavations at the site of Sanxingdui in China’s Sichuan Province.

Clockwise, from top left: Three gold ear pendants, strips of gold leaf, silver coins, gold ear pendant A hoard of silver and gold items buried in the Netherlands 800 years ago—possibly for ...