Through a new discovery, researchers have put to rest age-old questions about an ancient Roman pool in Bahçeli, Turkey.

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Italian archaeologists, working with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeology, have discovered eight new ancient sites from Swat to Taxila. The findings, including a 1,200-year-old ...

In the world of ancient manuscripts, scholars often come across texts that have been altered or erased. This technique, called palimpsest, involves carefully scraping off the original writing to make ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...