A jug containing silver earrings and ingots has been discovered at the ancient biblical city of Abel Beth Maacah in Israel. Found to the north of a massive structure that may be a tower, the jug and ...

For the first time, archaeologists have discovered wooden defenses surrounding an ancient Roman military base. The fence topped with sharpened wooden stakes, akin to today’s barbed wire, is the kind ...

A stunning hoard of ancient silver, believed to have been used as bribes by Romans, was found with a metal detector by a teenager in Scotland. The silver fragments were found in Dairsie, in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A collection of ancient silver coins was unearthed recently on a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said this week.

Sicily’s Morgantina silver, repatriated to Italy by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art when the institution realized the artifacts had been stolen, will once again grace the halls of the Met, ...

Do the illustrations on a 4,000-year-old silver goblet tell a Babylonian creation myth? Scholars have thought so for the last five decades, ever since the artifact was first unearthed. Now, new ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A hoard of 5,600 silver coins from the Roman Empire dating back nearly ...

The ancient Mongols have a reputation for having been fierce warriors. A new study out of the University of Pittsburgh shows them to have been unmatched polluters. Graduate student Aubrey Hillman ...