A kangaroo painting created over 17,000 years ago by Aboriginal artists has been identified with a little help from some ancient wasps as Australia’s oldest intact…
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A tiny figurine unearthed in Cambridge shire has provided a rare insight into the popular fashion of the Roman-era Briton. Many may have worn a clipped…
Long-overlooked murals in the Augsburg Cathedral are causing a stir among art historians and church officials alike after researchers revealed that the paintings are actually centuries old. A…
5,000-year-old monument in Salisbury, Stonehenge, has stood on the down lands of what is now southern England. With its origins and purpose shrouded in mystery, the…
Archaeologists have uncovered vast troves of Neolithic and Bronze Age artifacts while conducting excavations for a proposed highway tunnel near Stonehenge. Among the new discoveries are…
Archeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old mummy with a gold-tongue amulet meant to let the dead person “speak” — though hopefully not curse — in the afterlife. Mummy curses…